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.