Bill Text: TX HB3453 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of game rooms in certain counties.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB3453 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3453-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3453 | ||
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| 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; [ |
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| (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; | ||
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| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3453 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3453 on May 26, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 6, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3453 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
