88R20484 JCG-D
 
  By: Bumgarner H.B. No. 3579
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the issuance of an emergency order by the Texas
  Department of Licensing and Regulation against a massage
  establishment.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 455, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 455.252 to read as follows:
         Sec. 455.252.  EMERGENCY ORDER. The executive director may
  issue an emergency order under Section 51.3511 halting the
  operation of a massage establishment if:
               (1)  a law enforcement agency gives notice to the
  department, or the department otherwise learns, that the law
  enforcement agency is investigating the massage establishment for
  an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code; or
               (2)  the department has reasonable cause to believe
  that an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, is being committed at
  the massage establishment.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.