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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the definition of hotel.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.   Sec. 156.001, Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        Sec. 156.001.  Definitions.  In this chapter:
    1-7              (1)  "Hotel" means a building in which members of the
    1-8  public obtain sleeping accommodations for consideration.  The term
    1-9  includes a hotel, motel, tourist home, tourist house, tourist
   1-10  court, lodging house, inn, or rooming house, but does not include a
   1-11  hospital, sanitarium, <or> nursing home, or a dormitory or other
   1-12  university housing facility owned and operated by an institution of
   1-13  higher education or a private or independent institution of higher
   1-14  education as those terms are defined in Section 61.003(8) and (15),
   1-15  Education Code, used for the purpose of providing sleeping
   1-16  accommodations for persons engaged in an educational program or
   1-17  activity at the institution.
   1-18              (2)  "Quarterly Period" means a quarter of the calendar
   1-19  year.  The first quarter is composed of the quarter is composed of
   1-20  the months of April, May, and June; the third quarter is composed
   1-21  of the months of July, August, and September; and the fourth
   1-22  quarter is composed of the months of October, November, and
   1-23  December.
    2-1        SECTION 3.   VALIDATION OF PRIOR LAW.  Section 1 of this Act
    2-2  is a validation of the law existing prior to the effective date of
    2-3  this Act.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.   The importance of this legislation
    2-5  and the 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 and the rule that a law may not take effect
    2-9  until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it
   2-10  was enacted be suspended, and these rules are hereby suspended.