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.