1-1  By:  Brimer, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)           H.B. No. 609
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
    1-3  April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Finance; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 351.101(f), Tax Code, is amended to read
   1-11  as follows:
   1-12        (f)  Hotel occupancy tax revenue spent for a purpose
   1-13  authorized by this section may be spent for day-to-day operations,
   1-14  supplies, salaries, office rental, travel expenses, and other
   1-15  administrative costs only if those administrative costs are
   1-16  incurred directly in the promotion and servicing expenditures
   1-17  authorized under Section 351.101(a) <351.101(a)(1) or (3)>.  If a
   1-18  municipal or other public or private entity that conducts an
   1-19  activity authorized under this section conducts other activities
   1-20  that are not authorized under this section, the portion of the
   1-21  total administrative costs of the entity for which hotel occupancy
   1-22  tax revenue may be used may not exceed the portion of those
   1-23  administrative costs actually incurred in conducting the authorized
   1-24  activities.
   1-25        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-30  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-31  passage, and it is so enacted.
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