Bill Text: TX HB1213 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of amusement redemption machine game rooms in certain counties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-04 - Left pending in committee [HB1213 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1213-Introduced.html

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84R7444 DDT-F
By: Bonnen of Galveston H.B. No. 1213

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of amusement redemption machine 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 added
by Chapter 1284 (H.B. 2123), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 2013, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 234.132. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only
to:
(1) a county that has [with] a population of less than
25,000, [that] 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; and
(3) a county that has a population of more than
285,000, is adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, and is adjacent to a
county that has a population of four million or more.
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 234, Local Government
Code, as added by Chapter 1377 (H.B. 1127), Acts of the 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.