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
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2-4 Name: Michael L. White x
2-5 Representing: Greater Houston Partnership
2-6 City: Houston
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2-8 Name: George W. Strong x
2-9 Representing: (illegible)
2-10 City: Houston
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