Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 1772 amends Local Government Code provisions relating to sports and community venue projects to prohibit election campaign material that contains false and misleading information. A complaint about such information may be filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, which may investigate and impose a penalty. Collectors of motor vehicle rental taxes, where such taxes apply as a means of project financing, are entitled to a cost reimbursement of one percent of the amount collected, provided that the tax collections are received by the municipality or county by a specified deadline. The legislation allows a tri-county municipality with a population of less than 120,000, subject to other qualifying criteria, to use venue project hotel occupancy tax revenue for specified project purposes. Hotel bills and receipts must describe the state tax and other portions of the total hotel occupancy tax that are nonattributable to venue project financing. Amendments to the Development Corporation Act of 1979 clarify sales and use tax election provisions and remove the $135 million cap on bonds issued by certain development corporations.