By Eiland, Gray H.B. No. 2060 74R5071 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to allocation and use of state and municipal hotel 1-3 occupancy taxes. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 156, Tax Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 156.2511 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 156.2511. ALLOCATION OF CERTAIN REVENUE. (a) Not 1-8 later than the last day of the month following a calendar quarter, 1-9 the comptroller shall: 1-10 (1) compute the amount of revenue derived from the 1-11 collection of taxes imposed under this chapter at a rate of four 1-12 percent and received from hotels located in an eligible coastal 1-13 municipality that has created a park board of trustees to 1-14 administer public beaches under Chapter 306, Local Government Code; 1-15 and 1-16 (2) issue to the eligible coastal municipality a 1-17 warrant drawn on the general revenue fund in the amount computed 1-18 under Subdivision (1). 1-19 (b) An eligible coastal municipality may use money received 1-20 under this section only to clean and maintain public beaches in 1-21 that municipality. 1-22 (c) Section 403.094(h), Government Code, does not apply to 1-23 funds described by Subsection (a). 1-24 (d) In this section: 2-1 (1) "Eligible coastal municipality" has the meaning 2-2 assigned by Section 351.001. 2-3 (2) "Clean and maintain" has the meaning assigned by 2-4 Section 61.063, Natural Resources Code. 2-5 SECTION 2. Section 351.105, Tax Code, is amended by adding 2-6 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 2-7 (e) Money received under Section 156.2511 and used to clean 2-8 and maintain beaches is included in determining whether the 2-9 municipality has met the funding obligation prescribed by 2-10 Subsections (c) and (d), and the municipality may credit that money 2-11 against the funding requirements prescribed by Subsections (c) and 2-12 (d). 2-13 SECTION 3. Section 61.076, Natural Resources Code, is 2-14 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 2-15 (c) For purposes of determining the maximum amount of money 2-16 a municipality may receive under Subsection (a), money received 2-17 under Section 156.2511, Tax Code: 2-18 (1) is not included in determining the amount the 2-19 municipality spends to clean and maintain public beaches during the 2-20 state fiscal year for which reimbursement is sought; and 2-21 (2) is included as part of the state share. 2-22 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-23 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.