Amend CSHB 2001 on page 4, line 3, as follows:
      (1)  Add the following new sections:
      SECTION 13.  Subdivision (2), Section 351.001, Tax Code, is
amended to read as follows:
            (2)  "Convention center facilities" or "convention
center complex" means civic centers, civic center auditoriums,
exhibition halls, and coliseums that are owned by the municipality
or other governmental entity or that are managed in whole or part
by the municipality, hotels owned by the municipality or a
nonprofit municipally sponsored local government corporation
created pursuant to the Texas Transportation Corporation Act
(Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) within 1,000 feet of
a convention center owned by a municipality or county with a
population of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <> or more, or a historic hotel
owned by a municipality or a nonprofit municipally sponsored local
government corporation created pursuant to the Texas Corporation
Act (Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) within one mile
of a convention center owned by a municipality or county with a
population of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <> or more.   The term includes
parking areas or facilities that are for the parking or storage of
conveyances and that are located at or in the vicinity of other
convention center facilities.
      SECTION 14.  Subsection (a), Section 351.102, Tax Code, is
amended to read as follows:
      (a)  Subject to the limitations provided by this subchapter,
a municipality may pledge the revenue derived from the tax imposed
under this chapter for the payment of bonds that are issued under
Section 3, Chapter 63, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1965 (Article 1269j-4.l, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
for one or more of the purposes provided by Section 351.101 or, in
the case of a municipality of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <> or more, for the
payment of principal of or interest on bonds or other obligations
of a municipality or of a municipally sponsored local government
corporation created pursuant to the Texas Transportation
Corporation Act (Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) that
were issued to pay the cost of the acquisition and construction of
a convention center hotel or the cost of acquisition, remodeling,
or rehabilitation of a historic hotel structure; provided, however,
such pledge may only be that portion of the tax  collected at such
hotel.
      SECTION 15.  Subsection (a), Section 2, Chapter 63, Acts of
the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965 (Article 1269j-4.l,
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
      (a)  Any such city is hereby authorized to establish,
acquire, lease as lessee or lessor, purchase, construct, enlarge,
equip, repair, operate or maintain (any or all) improvements such
as civic centers, civic center buildings, auditoriums, opera
houses, music halls, exhibition halls, coliseums, museums,
libraries, or other city buildings (either or all), gold courses,
tennis courts, and other similar recreational facilities, hotels
owned by a municipality or nonprofit municipally sponsored local
government corporation created pursuant ot the Texas Transporation
Corporation Act (Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)
within 1,000 feet of a convention center owner by a municipality or
county with a population of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <> or more, or a
historic hotel owned by a municipality or a nonprofit municipally
sponsored local government corporation created pursuant to the
Texas Transportation Corporation Act (Article 15281, Vernon's Texas
Civil Statutes) within one mile of a convention center owned by a
municipality or county with a population of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <> or
more, and to establish, acquire, lease as lessee or lessor,
purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, repair, operate or
maintain (any or all) structures, parking areas, or facilities,
located at or in the immediate vicinity of such public
improvements, to be used in connection with such improvements for
off-street parking or storage of motor vehicles or other
conveyances; and provided that any such lease shall be on such
terms and conditions as said city shall deem appropriate.
      SECTION 16.  Subdivision (8), Section 2303.003, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
      (8)   "Qualified hotel project" means a hotel proposed to he
constructed by a municipality or a nonprofit municipally sponsored
local government corporation created under the Texas Transportation
Corporation Act (Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) that
is within 1,000 feet of a convention center owned by a municipality
having a population of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <> or more or owned by a
county containing a municipality having a population of 440,000 or
more, including shops, parking facilities, and any other facilities
ancillary to the hotel.
      SECTION 17.  Section 151.429 of the Tax Code is amended by
adding new subsections (i) and (j) to read as follows:
      (i)  Only one qualified hotel project as defined under
Chapter 2303.003 (8), Government Code, may be constructed in each
eligible municipality with a population of less than 1,500,000,
however, the qualified hotel project under this subsection shall
not be entitled to the sales tax refund or rebate contained in
subsection (h).
      (j)  Subsections (h) and (i) shall expire on December 31,
2001.  A project that is eligible under the provisions of
subsection (h) prior to December 31, 2001 shall continue to receive
any rebates, refunds, or payments through the first 10 years after
such project is open for initial occupancy as stated by the law in
effect at that time.
      SECTION 18.  Subsection (b), Section 2303.5055, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
      (b)  A municipality with a population of 440,000 <>]L1,500,000  <>
or more may agree to guarantee from hotel occupancy taxes the bonds
or other obligations of a municipality or of a municipally
sponsored local government corporation created under the Texas
Transportation Corporation Act (Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes) that were issued or incurred to pay the cost of
construction, remodeling, or rehabilitation of a qualified hotel
project.
      (2)  Renumber the remaining sections accordingly.
WENTWORTH
MONCRIEF