By: Bumgarner (Senate Sponsor - King)	H.B. No. 3579
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023;
	May 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
	Commerce; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the issuance of an emergency order by the Texas
	Department of Licensing and Regulation against a massage
	establishment.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 455, Occupations Code, is
	amended by adding Section 455.252 to read as follows:
	Sec. 455.252.  EMERGENCY ORDER. The executive director may
	issue an emergency order under Section 51.3511 halting the
	operation of a massage establishment if:
	(1)  a law enforcement agency gives notice to the
	department, or the department otherwise learns, that the law
	enforcement agency is investigating the massage establishment for
	an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code; or
	(2)  the department has reasonable cause to believe
	that an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code, is being committed at
	the massage establishment.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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