Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 1111 amends Local Government Code provisions relating to financing sports and community venue projects to create exceptions to the five percent maximum tax rate for short-term motor vehicle rentals and the two percent maximum tax rate for hotel rooms. It allows a county with a population of more than two million that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than one million to impose tax rates of up to six percent and three percent, respectively, with voter approval. For a project in such a county, the bill requires a sports and community venue district to make a good faith effort to increase the contracts awarded to historically underutilized businesses for construction of a venue project and for purchase of related goods and services. It also makes a district's books, records, and papers for a venue project in any county subject to disclosure under the state's public information law.