By: Ellis S.B. No. 1530
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the rate of the county hotel occupancy tax.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 352.003, Tax Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (b) The county tax rate in a municipality that has a
1-6 population of 1,200,000 or more may not exceed two percent of the
1-7 price paid for a room in a hotel <until January 1, 2001, and after
1-8 that date may not exceed one percent of the price paid for a room
1-9 in a hotel>.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.