S.B. No. 1530
                                        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.