85R1487 DMS-D
By: Landgraf H.B. No. 3453
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, 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;[and]
(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) [3] a county that has a population of 550,000 or
more and is adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (2); and
(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.
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.