| 1 | | - | H.B. No. 1404 |
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| 1 | + | By: Dean (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 1404 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; |
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| 3 | + | April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | + | Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by |
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| 5 | + | the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 4 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 11 | | relating to the regulation of game rooms in certain counties. |
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| 6 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 7 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 234.132, Local Government Code, is |
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| 8 | 14 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 9 | 15 | | Sec. 234.132. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only |
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| 10 | 16 | | to: |
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| 11 | 17 | | (1) a county that has a population of less than 25,000, |
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| 12 | 18 | | is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, and is within 50 miles of an |
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| 13 | 19 | | international border; |
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| 14 | 20 | | (2) a county that has a population of four million or |
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| 15 | 21 | | more; |
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| 16 | 22 | | (3) a county that is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico and |
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| 17 | 23 | | to a county that has a population of four million or more; |
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| 18 | 24 | | (4) a county located on the Texas-Mexico border that |
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| 19 | 25 | | has a population of less than 300,000 and contains a municipality |
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| 20 | 26 | | with a population of 200,000 or more; |
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| 21 | 27 | | (5) a county that has a population of 550,000 or more |
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| 22 | 28 | | and is adjacent to a county described by Subdivision (2); |
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| 23 | 29 | | (6) a county that is located in the Permian Basin |
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| 24 | 30 | | within 25 miles of this state's border with another state of the |
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| 25 | 31 | | United States and has a population of more than 130,000; |
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| 26 | 32 | | (7) a county that is located on this state's border |
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| 27 | 33 | | with Louisiana, has a population of more than 65,000, and is within |
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| 28 | 34 | | 50 miles of a municipality in Louisiana with a population of more |
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| 29 | 35 | | than 150,000; |
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| 30 | 36 | | (8) a county that has a population of more than 200,000 |
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| 31 | 37 | | and less than 220,000; [and] |
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| 32 | 38 | | (9) a county that has a population of more than 1.8 |
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| 33 | 39 | | million and that is adjacent to a county with a population of more |
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| 34 | 40 | | than 2.2 million; and |
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| 35 | 41 | | (10) a county that has a population of less than 40,000 |
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| 36 | 42 | | and is adjacent to: |
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| 37 | 43 | | (A) a county described by Subdivision (7); and |
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| 38 | 44 | | (B) a county described by Subdivision (8). |
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| 39 | 45 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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| 40 | | - | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 41 | | - | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 42 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 1404 was passed by the House on April |
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| 43 | | - | 12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 2, 2 present, not |
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| 44 | | - | voting. |
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| 45 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 46 | | - | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 47 | | - | I certify that H.B. No. 1404 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 48 | | - | 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. |
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| 49 | | - | ______________________________ |
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| 50 | | - | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 51 | | - | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 52 | | - | Date |
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| 53 | | - | _____________________ |
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| 54 | | - | Governor |
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| 46 | + | * * * * * |
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