By Madden H.B. No. 1268
75R4839 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy
1-3 tax.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 351.101(a), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) Revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax may be
1-8 used only to promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry,
1-9 and that use is limited to the following:
1-10 (1) the acquisition of sites for and the construction,
1-11 improvement, enlarging, equipping, repairing, operation, and
1-12 maintenance of convention center facilities or visitor information
1-13 centers, or both;
1-14 (2) the furnishing of facilities, personnel, and
1-15 materials for the registration of convention delegates or
1-16 registrants;
1-17 (3) advertising and conducting solicitations and
1-18 promotional programs to attract tourists and convention delegates
1-19 or registrants to the municipality or its vicinity;
1-20 (4) the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and
1-21 application of the arts, including instrumental and vocal music,
1-22 dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and
1-23 allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft
1-24 arts, motion pictures, radio, television, tape and sound recording,
2-1 and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution,
2-2 and exhibition of these major art forms; [and]
2-3 (5) historical restoration and preservation projects
2-4 or activities or advertising and conducting solicitations and
2-5 promotional programs to encourage tourists and convention delegates
2-6 to visit preserved historic sites or museums:
2-7 (A) at or in the immediate vicinity of
2-8 convention center facilities or visitor information centers; or
2-9 (B) located elsewhere in the municipality or its
2-10 vicinity that would be frequented by tourists and convention
2-11 delegates; and
2-12 (6) economic development efforts that target
2-13 businesses directly associated with tourism or the convention and
2-14 hotel industry.
2-15 SECTION 2. This Act does not apply to the use of tax revenue
2-16 pledged to secure bonds issued before the effective date of this
2-17 Act. Tax revenue pledged to secure bonds issued before the
2-18 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
2-19 date the bonds were issued, and that law is continued in effect for
2-20 that purpose.
2-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-27 passage, and it is so enacted.