By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1045
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to certain authorized expenditures of hotel occupancy tax
    1-2  revenue.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (f), Section 351.101, Tax Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (f)  Hotel occupancy tax revenue spent for a purpose
    1-7  authorized by this section may be spent for day-to-day operations,
    1-8  supplies, salaries, office rental, travel expenses, and other
    1-9  administrative costs only if those administrative costs are
   1-10  incurred directly in the promotion and servicing expenditures
   1-11  authorized under Subsection (a)(1), <Section 351.101 (a)(1) or>
   1-12  (3), (4), or (5).  If a municipal or other public or private entity
   1-13  that conducts an activity authorized under this section conducts
   1-14  other activities that are not authorized under this section, the
   1-15  portion of the total administrative costs of the entity for which
   1-16  hotel occupancy tax revenue may be used may not exceed the portion
   1-17  of those administrative costs actually incurred in conducting the
   1-18  authorized activities.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.