By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1654
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the licensing of temporary labor halls in certain
 1-2     municipalities.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 92, Subchapter B, Section 92.013(b),
 1-5     Labor Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 92.013.  EFFECT OF OTHER REGULATION.  (a)  Except as
 1-7     provided by Subsection (b), a license issued under this chapter
 1-8     supercedes a license required or issued by a municipality or other
 1-9     governmental subdivision of this state, and a license holder may
1-10     not be required to hold a license issued by a municipality or other
1-11     governmental subdivision of this state to operate as a temporary
1-12     common worker employer in the municipality or governmental
1-13     subdivision.
1-14           (b)  A municipality with a population greater than  750,000 
1-15     100,000 may establish municipal licensing requirements that impose
1-16     stricter standards than those imposed under Subchapter C.
1-17           (c)  This chapter does not restrict the zoning authority of a
1-18     municipality.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.