By: Landgraf (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) | H.B. No. 3453 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 2017, reported adversely, | ||
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, | ||
Nays 0, 1 present not voting; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3453 | By: Garcia |
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relating to the regulation of 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 | ||
amended by Chapters 623 (S.B. 1210) and 1170 (S.B. 866), Acts of the | ||
84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, is reenacted and amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 234.132. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only | ||
to: | ||
(1) a county that has a population of less than 25,000, | ||
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; | ||
(3) a county that is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico and | ||
to a county that has a population of four million or more; [ |
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(4) a county located on the Texas-Mexico border that | ||
has a population of less than 300,000 and contains a municipality | ||
with a population of 200,000 or more; | ||
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more and is adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (2); | ||
(6) a county that is located in the Permian Basin | ||
within 25 miles of this state's border with another state of the | ||
United States and has a population of more than 130,000; | ||
(7) a county that is located on this state's border | ||
with Louisiana, has a population of more than 65,000, and is within | ||
50 miles of a municipality in Louisiana with a population of more | ||
than 150,000; | ||
(8) a county that has a population of more than 200,000 | ||
and less than 220,000; and | ||
(9) a county that has a population of more than 1.8 | ||
million and that is adjacent to a county with a population of more | ||
than 2.2 million. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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