By: Sibley S.B. No. 1294 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the definition of hotel. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 156.001, Tax Code, is amended to read as 1-4 follows: 1-5 Sec. 156.101. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: 1-6 (1) "Hotel" means a building in which members of the 1-7 public obtain sleeping accommodations for consideration. The term 1-8 includes a hotel, motel, tourist home, tourist house, tourist 1-9 court, lodging house, inn, or rooming house, but does not include a 1-10 hospital, sanitarium, or nursing home, or a dormitory or other 1-11 university housing facility owned and operated by an institution of 1-12 higher education or a private or independent institution of higher 1-13 education as those terms are defined in Section 61.003(8) and (15), 1-14 Education Code, used for the purpose of providing sleeping 1-15 accommodations for persons engaged in an educational program or 1-16 activity at the institution. 1-17 (2) "Quarterly Period" means a quarter of the calendar 1-18 year. The first quarter is composed of the months of January, 1-19 February, and March; the second quarter is composed of the months 1-20 of April, May, and June; the third quarter is composed of the 1-21 months of July, August, and September; and the fourth quarter is 1-22 composed of the months of October, November, and December. 1-23 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-1 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.