By: Dean (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 1404
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019;
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 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 has a population of less than 40,000
and is adjacent to:
(A) a county described by Subdivision (7); and
(B) a county described by Subdivision (8).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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