By Brimer, Wohlgemuth, et al.                          H.B. No. 609
       74R2369 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing municipalities to spend hotel occupancy tax
    1-3  revenue for certain costs.
    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 connection with a purpose <the promotion and
   1-12  servicing expenditures> authorized under Subsection (a) <Section
   1-13  351.101(a)(1) or (3)>.  If a municipal or other public or private
   1-14  entity that conducts an activity authorized under this section
   1-15  conducts other activities that are not authorized under this
   1-16  section, the portion of the total administrative costs of the
   1-17  entity for which hotel occupancy tax revenue may be used may not
   1-18  exceed the portion of those administrative costs actually incurred
   1-19  in conducting the authorized activities.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-21  to an administrative cost incurred by a municipality on or after
   1-22  the effective date of this Act.  An administrative cost incurred
   1-23  before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
   1-24  effect when the cost was incurred, and the former law is continued
    2-1  in effect for that purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.