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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