Bill Text: TX SB666 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a sign required to be posted in the restrooms of sexually oriented businesses; creating a criminal offense.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB666 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB666-Comm_Sub.html
85R31748 TSR-D | ||
By: Kolkhorst, et al. | S.B. No. 666 | |
(Miller) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 666: No. |
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relating to a sign required to be posted in the restrooms of | ||
sexually oriented businesses; creating a criminal offense. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 102, Business & Commerce Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subchapter C to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER C. NOTICE REQUIREMENTS ON PREMISES OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED | ||
BUSINESSES | ||
Sec. 102.101. POSTING OF CERTAIN SIGN REQUIRED. (a) A | ||
sexually oriented business shall post by the sink area in each | ||
restroom on the premises one sign that directs a victim of human | ||
trafficking to contact the National Human Trafficking Resource | ||
Center. Except as provided by Subsection (c), the sign must be 11 | ||
inches by 17 inches in size. | ||
(b) The attorney general by rule shall prescribe the design, | ||
content, and manner of display of the sign required by this section. | ||
The sign must: | ||
(1) be in both English and Spanish; and | ||
(2) include the telephone number and Internet website | ||
of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center. | ||
(c) The attorney general by rule may require the sign to: | ||
(1) be in an additional language other than English or | ||
Spanish; | ||
(2) be larger than 11 inches by 17 inches in size if | ||
the attorney general determines that a larger sign is appropriate; | ||
and | ||
(3) include other information the attorney general | ||
considers necessary and appropriate. | ||
Sec. 102.102. CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) A person commits an | ||
offense if the person: | ||
(1) is an owner or operator of a sexually oriented | ||
business; and | ||
(2) fails to post the sign required by Section 102.101 | ||
in compliance with that section and rules adopted under that | ||
section. | ||
(b) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) The attorney general shall adopt rules to | ||
implement Section 102.101, Business & Commerce Code, as added by | ||
this Act, not later than September 1, 2018. | ||
(b) Each sexually oriented business shall post the sign | ||
required by Section 102.101, Business & Commerce Code, as added by | ||
this Act, not later than March 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of | ||
this section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
(b) Section 102.102, Business & Commerce Code, as added by | ||
this Act, takes effect March 1, 2019. |