Bill Text: TX SB1866 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the employment of certain individuals at a sexually oriented business.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-23 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1866 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1866-Introduced.html
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By: Taylor of Galveston | S.B. No. 1866 |
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relating to the employment of certain individuals at a sexually | ||
oriented business. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 125.0015(a), Civil Practice and Remedies | ||
Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person who maintains a place to which persons | ||
habitually go for the following purposes and who knowingly | ||
tolerates the activity and furthermore fails to make reasonable | ||
attempts to abate the activity maintains a common nuisance: | ||
(1) discharge of a firearm in a public place as | ||
prohibited by the Penal Code; | ||
(2) reckless discharge of a firearm as prohibited by | ||
the Penal Code; | ||
(3) engaging in organized criminal activity as a | ||
member of a combination as prohibited by the Penal Code; | ||
(4) delivery, possession, manufacture, or use of a | ||
controlled substance in violation of Chapter 481, Health and Safety | ||
Code; | ||
(5) gambling, gambling promotion, or communicating | ||
gambling information as prohibited by the Penal Code; | ||
(6) prostitution, promotion of prostitution, or | ||
aggravated promotion of prostitution as prohibited by the Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(7) compelling prostitution as prohibited by the Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(8) commercial manufacture, commercial distribution, | ||
or commercial exhibition of obscene material as prohibited by the | ||
Penal Code; | ||
(9) aggravated assault as described by Section 22.02, | ||
Penal Code; | ||
(10) sexual assault as described by Section 22.011, | ||
Penal Code; | ||
(11) aggravated sexual assault as described by Section | ||
22.021, Penal Code; | ||
(12) robbery as described by Section 29.02, Penal | ||
Code; | ||
(13) aggravated robbery as described by Section 29.03, | ||
Penal Code; | ||
(14) unlawfully carrying a weapon as described by | ||
Section 46.02, Penal Code; | ||
(15) murder as described by Section 19.02, Penal Code; | ||
(16) capital murder as described by Section 19.03, | ||
Penal Code; | ||
(17) continuous sexual abuse of young child or | ||
children as described by Section 21.02, Penal Code; | ||
(18) massage therapy or other massage services in | ||
violation of Chapter 455, Occupations Code; | ||
(19) employing an individual younger than 21 years of | ||
age [ |
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243.002, Local Government Code; | ||
(20) trafficking of persons as described by Section | ||
20A.02, Penal Code; | ||
(21) sexual conduct or performance by a child as | ||
described by Section 43.25, Penal Code; or | ||
(22) employment harmful to a child as described by | ||
Section 43.251, Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 51.016(b) and (h), Labor Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A sexually oriented business may not employ an | ||
individual younger than 21 [ |
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(h) The commission, the attorney general, or a local law | ||
enforcement agency may inspect a record maintained under this | ||
section if there is good reason to believe that an individual | ||
younger than 21 [ |
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by the sexually oriented business within the two years preceding | ||
the date of the inspection. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 43.251(a)(1), Penal Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(1) "Child" means a person younger than 21 [ |
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of age. | ||
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
125.0015, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, applies only to a cause | ||
of action that accrues on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
cause of action that accrues before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. The changes in law made by this Act to Section | ||
51.016, Labor Code, and Section 43.251, Penal Code, apply only to an | ||
offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of | ||
this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of | ||
this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |