81R2663 YDB-D
 
  By: Flores H.B. No. 3811
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the locations where a licensed authorized organization
  may conduct bingo.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2001.404, Occupations Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 2001.404.  PRINCIPAL LOCATION.  A licensed authorized
  organization may conduct bingo only in:
               (1)  the county where the organization has its primary
  business office or another county contiguous to that county; or
               (2)  if the organization does not have a [has no]
  business office, in the county of the principal residence of its
  chief executive officer, or a contiguous county of this state.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.