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People eager to spend money at strip clubs in North Carolina could soon have to pay more than they may have hoped.<\/p>\n

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State lawmakers are considering a bill<\/a> that would charge strip club customers an additional $10 at the door. The funds would be distributed to the Sexual Assault and Rape Crisis Center Fund to be used by the North Carolina Council for Women.<\/p>\n

The fee would only apply to \u201csexually oriented businesses\u201d that sell alcohol.<\/p>\n

Rep. Dennis Riddell, an Alamance County Republican, is a co-sponsor of the bill and introduced it in a committee meeting on Tuesday. He said the fee is going toward \u201csome of the domestic violence programs and child abuse programs that we have that always seem to have trouble getting funding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re looking at trying to do is again provide a money source for people who are victims of what sometimes can be the secondary causes and consequences of these types of institutions,\u201d Riddell said.<\/p>\n

Critics of the bill brought up First Amendment concerns and the potential for the legislation to be viewed an attempt to regulate content or ideas, which is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Nude dancing is somewhat constitutionally protected because it\u2019s classified as \u201cexpressive conduct,\u201d according to a legislative analyst Ike McRee.<\/p>\n

Riddell said the bill deals \u201cwith the secondary impacts. We\u2019re not talking about content as protected speech under the Constitution currently.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill would impose the $10 fee on patrons of strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses in addition to any other fees imposed by the institution.<\/p>\n

The bill states that the General Assembly \u201cfinds that sexually oriented businesses that combine nudity with the aggravating factor of alcohol can and do cause secondary harmful effects on the public\u2019s health, safety, and welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Businesses would have to transmit the money on a quarterly basis, as well as totals of how many people are admitted. The records would not hold names or personal information for any customers, according to the bill.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat, said in Tuesday\u2019s committee that while she understands \u201cthe good intentions\u201d of the bill, she doesn\u2019t see the connection \u201cbetween those individuals who frequent these establishments\u201d and paying for domestic violence programs.<\/p>\n

She said the fee would \u201cpay for services that we should be providing as a government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrison also mentioned that content laws require strict scrutiny \u2014 which is the highest level of judicial review \u2014 and that the state could be subject to lawsuits \u201cthe way this is drafted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liz Barber, the director of policy and advocacy of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, agreed with Harrison. Barber said regulating where strip clubs can operate was found to be constitutional, as decided by 1986\u2019s City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., because of \u201cthe real effects\u201d of a business operating near a preschool or other establishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, this is different because they\u2019re trying to regulate the same sort of establishments and trying to get money from them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Riddell said that content is \u201cnot being touched.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat there is a judgment of is, can the government get more money for some of these groups that are part of the victim class?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McRee said the particular language of the bill was based on Texas law. The Texas Supreme Court in 2011 ruled that a $5 fee collected from each customer at a business offering live nude entertainment and alcohol consumption \u201cwas not content-based and did not require strict scrutiny analysis as to a First Amendment matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McRee said the law \u201cwas rather deemed to be directed at secondary effects of nude dancing when alcohol was being consumed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrison said she was not going to get into a constitutional argument, but that the Texas Supreme Court \u201cis very different.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The bill was moved to the House\u2019s Finance Committee.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published June 9, 2026 at 3:44 PM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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