1-1  By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1530
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 25, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 12, Nays 0;
    1-5  April 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the rate of the county hotel occupancy tax.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 352.003, Tax Code, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (b)  The county tax rate in a municipality that has a
   1-13  population of 1,200,000 or more may not exceed two percent of the
   1-14  price paid for a room in a hotel <until January 1, 2001, and after
   1-15  that date may not exceed one percent of the price paid for a room
   1-16  in a hotel>.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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