Bill Text: TX HB3286 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-05 - Referred to Intergovernmental Relations [HB3286 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3286-Comm_Sub.html
  85R18989 DMS-F
 
  By: Goldman, Geren, Collier, Klick H.B. No. 3286
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3286:
 
  By:  Kuempel C.S.H.B. No. 3286
 
 
 
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 has a population of not less than 1.8
  million and that is adjacent to a county with a population of not
  less than 2.2 million.
         SECTION 2.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
  over another Act of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017,
  relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
  codes.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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