81R383 ATP-D
By: West S.B. No. 1289
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the fee based on admissions to certain sexually
oriented businesses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 47.052(a), Business & Commerce Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A fee is imposed on a sexually oriented business in an
amount equal to $3 [$5] for each entry by each customer admitted to
the business.
SECTION 2. Section 47.054, Business & Commerce Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 47.054. ALLOCATION OF [CERTAIN] REVENUE FOR SEXUAL
ASSAULT PROGRAMS. The comptroller shall deposit the amount [first
$25 million] received from the fee imposed under this subchapter
[in a state fiscal biennium] to the credit of the sexual assault
program fund.
SECTION 3. Sections 47.055 and 47.0551, Business & Commerce
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
a fee imposed for the admission of a customer to a sexually oriented
business on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 5. 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, 2009.