By:  Lucio                                            S.B. No. 1304
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to an exception to the hotel occupancy tax.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 156.101, Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-4  follows:
    1-5        Sec. 156.101.  EXCEPTION--PERMANENT RESIDENT.  This chapter
    1-6  does not impose a tax on a person who has the right to use or
    1-7  possess a room in a hotel for at least 90 <30> consecutive days, so
    1-8  long as there is no interruption of payment for the period.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.