According to conservative group Concerned Women of America, Missouri lawmakers will soon consider a sweeping bill designed to curtail adult businesses by imposing severe restrictions on hours of operation, alcohol licenses and age of employees.
Mike Mears, CWA's director of state legislative relations, reported that the bill, HB300, goes as far as he's seen a bill go, in terms of regulating sexually-oriented businesses.
Under the proposed measure, sexually-oriented business (including strip clubs and adult bookstores) would be required to close on Sundays, with business hours during the rest of the week to end at 10 p.m. Alcohol would not be served on the premises and employees of the businesses would have to be at least twenty-one years of age.
Mears said that, though no firm timeline is set, he thinks that lawmakers will try and pass the whole bill, rather than putting it through piece by piece. "However, if this Bill does not pass, you will surely see it broken up into pieces, and attempted to pass that way," Mears told the CWA.
