Bill Text: TX HB708 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the definition of sexually oriented business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-28 - Referred to State Affairs [HB708 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB708-Introduced.html
  88R2452 SRA-D
 
  By: Shaheen H.B. No. 708
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the definition of sexually oriented business.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 102.051, Business & Commerce Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 102.051.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
               (1)  "Drag performance" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 243.002, Local Government Code.
               (1-a) "Nude" means:
                     (A)  entirely unclothed; or
                     (B)  clothed in a manner that leaves uncovered or
  visible through less than fully opaque clothing any portion of the
  breasts below the top of the areola of the breasts, if the person is
  female, or any portion of the genitals or buttocks.
               (2)  "Sexually oriented business" means a nightclub,
  bar, restaurant, or similar commercial enterprise that:
                     (A)  provides for an audience of two or more
  individuals:
                           (i)  live nude entertainment or live nude
  performances; or
                           (ii)  a drag performance; and
                     (B)  authorizes on-premises consumption of
  alcoholic beverages, regardless of whether the consumption of
  alcoholic beverages is under a license or permit issued under the
  Alcoholic Beverage Code.
         SECTION 2.  Section 243.002, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 243.002.  DEFINITIONS [DEFINITION].  In this chapter:
               (1)  "Drag performance" means a performance in which a
  performer exhibits a gender identity that is different than the
  performer's gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or
  other physical markers and sings, lip syncs, dances, or otherwise
  performs before an audience for entertainment.
               (2)  "Sexually [, "sexually] oriented business" means:
                     (A)  a sex parlor, nude studio, modeling studio,
  love parlor, adult bookstore, adult movie theater, adult video
  arcade, adult movie arcade, adult video store, adult motel, or
  other commercial enterprise the primary business of which is the
  offering of a service or the selling, renting, or exhibiting of
  devices or any other items intended to provide sexual stimulation
  or sexual gratification to the customer; or
                     (B)  a nightclub, bar, restaurant, or other
  commercial enterprise that provides for an audience of two or more
  individuals a drag performance.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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