By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 1210

(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2015; March 17, 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.) Click here to see the committee vote

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 550,000 or more and is adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (2).

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Local Government Code, as added by Chapter 1377 (H.B. 1127), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is repealed.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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