By Hochberg                                           H.B. No. 2623
       74R5139 DAK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the rate of the county hotel occupancy tax.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 352.003(b), Tax Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The county tax rate in a municipality that has a
    1-7  population of 1,200,000 or more may not exceed two percent of the
    1-8  price paid for a room in a hotel <until January 1, 2001, and after
    1-9  that date may not exceed one percent of the price paid for a room
   1-10  in a hotel>.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.