By Solis                                        H.B. No. 1222

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the purposes for which certain municipalities may use

 1-3     revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended

 1-6     by adding Sections 351.1012 and 351.1066 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 351.1012.  USE OF REVENUE: SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.  In

 1-8     addition to the uses permitted by Section 351.101(a), a

 1-9     municipality with a population of less than 1,650 may use hotel

1-10     occupancy tax revenue to provide police protection in the

1-11     municipality.

1-12           Sec. 351.1066.  ALLOCATION OF REVENUE:  SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.

1-13     The governing body of a municipality with a population of less than

1-14     1,650 may allocate hotel occupancy tax revenue among the permitted

1-15     uses as determined by ordinance.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.