By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 1031
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019;
  April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2019, reported favorably by
  the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 9, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  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, is
  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;
               (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;
               (5)  a county that has a population of 550,000 or 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; and
               (10)  a county that is located on this state's border
  with Louisiana and is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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