1-1 By: A. Smith of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 1232 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1993; 1-3 April 19, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1993, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 29, 1993, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Armbrister x 1-10 Leedom x 1-11 Carriker x 1-12 Henderson x 1-13 Madla x 1-14 Moncrief x 1-15 Patterson x 1-16 Rosson x 1-17 Shapiro x 1-18 Wentworth x 1-19 Whitmire x 1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-21 AN ACT 1-22 relating to the proportion of the hotel occupancy tax collected in 1-23 certain cities which can be utilized to promote the arts. 1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-25 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 351.103, Tax Code, is 1-26 amended to read as follows: 1-27 (c) Not more than 15 percent of the hotel occupancy tax 1-28 revenue collected by a municipality, other than a municipality 1-29 having a population of more than 1.6 million, or the amount of tax 1-30 received by the municipality at the rate of one percent of the cost 1-31 of a room, whichever is greater, may be used for the purposes 1-32 provided by Section 351.101(a)(4). Not more than 19.30 percent of 1-33 the hotel occupancy tax revenue collected by a municipality having 1-34 a population of more than 1.6 million, or the amount of tax 1-35 received by the municipality at the rate of one percent of the cost 1-36 of a room, whichever is greater, may be used for the purposes 1-37 provided by Section 351.101(a)(4). Not more than 15 percent of the 1-38 hotel occupancy tax revenue collected by a municipality having a 1-39 population of more than 125,000 may be used for the purposes 1-40 provided by Section 351.101(a)(5). This subsection does not apply 1-41 to an eligible municipality that imposes the tax authorized by this 1-42 chapter at a rate that is less than seven percent of the price paid 1-43 for a room in a hotel. 1-44 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-50 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-51 * * * * * 1-52 Austin, 1-53 Texas 1-54 April 29, 1993 1-55 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-56 President of the Senate 1-57 Sir: 1-58 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-59 referred H.B. No. 1232, have had the same under consideration, and 1-60 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-61 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-62 Armbrister, 1-63 Chairman 1-64 * * * * * 1-65 WITNESSES 1-66 FOR AGAINST ON 1-67 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-68 Name: Sabrina Foster x 2-1 Representing: May/City Council, Houston 2-2 City: Houston 2-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-4 Name: Michael L. White x 2-5 Representing: Greater Houston Partnership 2-6 City: Houston 2-7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-8 Name: George W. Strong x 2-9 Representing: (illegible) 2-10 City: Houston 2-11 -------------------------------------------------------------------