By Place H.B. No. 2275 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2275: By Place C.S.H.B. No. 2275 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the application of the hotel occupancy tax to certain 1-3 dormitories or other housing facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 156.001, Tax Code, is amended to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Section 156.001. Definition. In this chapter, "hotel" means a 1-8 building in which members of the public obtain sleeping 1-9 accommodations for consideration. The term includes a hotel, 1-10 motel, tourist home, tourist house, tourist court, lodging house, 1-11 inn, or rooming house. The term(þL, butää does not include: 1-12 (1) a hospital, sanitarium, or nursing home; or 1-13 (2) a dormitory or other housing facility owned or 1-14 leased and operated by an institution of higher education or a 1-15 private or independent institution of higher education as those 1-16 terms are defined by Section 61.003 (8) and (15), Education Code, 1-17 used for the purpose of providing sleeping accommodations for 1-18 persons engaged in an educational program or activity at the 1-19 institution. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect on the first day of 1-21 the first calendar month beginning on or after the date that it may 1-22 take effect under Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. 1-23 (b) The change in law made by this Act does not affect taxes 2-1 imposed before the effective date of this Act, and the law in 2-2 effect before the effective date of this Act is continued in effect 2-3 for purposes of the liability for and collection of those taxes. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.