By A. Smith of Harris                                 H.B. No. 1232
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1232:
          By Craddick                                       C.S.H.B. No. 1232
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the proportion of the hotel occupancy tax collected in
    1-3  certain cities which can be utilized to promote the arts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 351.103, Tax Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  Not more than 15 percent of the hotel occupancy tax
    1-8  revenue collected by a municipality, other than a municipality
    1-9  having a population of more than 1.6 million, or the amount of tax
   1-10  received by the municipality at the rate of one percent of the cost
   1-11  of a room, whichever is greater, may be used for the purposes
   1-12  provided by Section 351.101(a)(4).  Not more than 19.30 percent of
   1-13  the hotel occupancy tax revenue collected by a municipality having
   1-14  a population of more than 1.6 million, or the amount of tax
   1-15  received by the municipality at the rate of one percent of the cost
   1-16  of a room, whichever is greater, may be used for the purposes
   1-17  provided by Section 351.101(a)(4).  Not more than 15 percent of the
   1-18  hotel occupancy tax revenue collected by a municipality having a
   1-19  population of more than 125,000 may be used for the purposes
   1-20  provided by Section 351.101(a)(5).  This subsection does not apply
   1-21  to an eligible municipality that imposes the tax authorized by this
   1-22  chapter at a rate that is less than seven percent of the price paid
   1-23  for a room in a hotel.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.