By Eiland H.B. No. 1424 75R6341 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the imposition of a municipal sales and use tax and 1-3 hotel occupancy tax in areas to be annexed by certain 1-4 municipalities. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 43.0751, Local Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (n) to read as follows: 1-8 (n) This subsection applies only to a municipality any 1-9 portion of which is located in a county that has a population of 1-10 more than 200,000 and that borders the Gulf of Mexico and is 1-11 adjacent to a county with a population of more than 2.8 million. A 1-12 municipality may impose within the boundaries of a district a 1-13 municipal sales and use tax authorized by Chapter 321, Tax Code, or 1-14 a municipal hotel occupancy tax authorized by Chapter 351, Tax 1-15 Code, that is imposed in the municipality if: 1-16 (1) the municipality has annexed the district for 1-17 limited purposes under this section; or 1-18 (2) following two public hearings on the matter, the 1-19 municipality and the district enter a written agreement providing 1-20 for the imposition of the tax. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.