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.