74R6117 CBH-D
By Brimer, et al. H.B. No. 609
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 609:
By Holzheauser C.S.H.B. No. 609
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) <351.101(a)(1) or (3)>. If a
1-13 municipal or other public or private entity that conducts an
1-14 activity authorized under this section conducts other activities
1-15 that are not authorized under this section, the portion of the
1-16 total administrative costs of the entity for which hotel occupancy
1-17 tax revenue may be used may not exceed the portion of those
1-18 administrative costs actually incurred in conducting the authorized
1-19 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.