By: Taylor of Galveston  S.B. No. 866
         (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2015; March 4, 2015, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
  Relations; April 7, 2015, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 1; April 7, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the regulation of amusement redemption machine game
  rooms in certain counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 234.132, Local Government Code, as added
  by Chapter 1284 (H.B. 2123), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular
  Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 234.132.  APPLICABILITY.  This subchapter applies only
  to:
               (1)  a county that has [with] a population of less than
  25,000, [that] is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, and is within 50
  miles of an international border;
               (2)  a county that has a population of four million or
  more; and
               (3)  a county that has a population of more than
  285,000, is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, and is adjacent to a
  county that has a population of four million or more.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 234, Local Government
  Code, as added by Chapter 1377 (H.B. 1127), Acts of the 83rd
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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