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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