By Madden                                              H.B. No. 204
       74R707 CBH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue to
    1-3  promote, encourage, or improve the arts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 351.101(f), Tax Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (f)  Hotel occupancy tax revenue spent for a purpose
    1-8  authorized by this section may be spent for day-to-day operations,
    1-9  supplies, salaries, office rental, travel expenses, and other
   1-10  administrative costs only if those administrative costs are
   1-11  incurred directly in the promotion and servicing expenditures
   1-12  authorized under Section 351.101(a)(1), (3), or (4) <351.101(a)(1)
   1-13  or (3)>.  If a municipal or other public or private entity that
   1-14  conducts an activity authorized under this section conducts other
   1-15  activities that are not authorized under this section, the portion
   1-16  of the total administrative costs of the entity for which hotel
   1-17  occupancy tax revenue may be used may not exceed the portion of
   1-18  those administrative costs actually incurred in conducting the
   1-19  authorized activities.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.