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                                                                  S.B. No. 270




AN ACT

relating to mass gatherings outside the limits of a municipality.             
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Section 751.002, Health and 
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
		(1)  "Mass gathering" means a gathering:                               
			(A)  that is held outside the limits of a 
municipality;      
			(B)  [and] that attracts or is expected to 
attract:
				(i)  more than 2,500 [5,000] persons; or
				(ii)  more than 500 persons, if 51 percent or 
more of those persons may reasonably be expected to be younger than 
21 years of age and it is planned or may reasonably be expected that 
alcoholic beverages will be sold, served, or consumed at or around 
the gathering; and
			(C)  at which the persons [who] will remain:  
				(i)  [at the meeting location] for more than 
five continuous hours; or
				(ii)  for any amount of time during the 
period beginning at 10 p.m. and ending at 4 a.m.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only 
to a mass gathering, as defined by Section 751.002, Health and 
Safety Code, as amended by this Act, for which a permit application 
is required to be filed by Section 751.004, Health and Safety Code, 
on or after the effective date of this Act.  A mass gathering, as 
defined by Section 751.002, Health and Safety Code, as that section 
existed before the effective date of this Act, for which a permit 
application is required to be filed before the effective date of 
this Act by Section 751.004, Health and Safety Code, is governed by 
the law in effect on the date the permit application is required to 
be filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that 
purpose.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2005.

                                                                              




______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 270 passed the Senate on 
March 17, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 270 passed the House on 
May 25, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two 
present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


______________________________ 
            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor