By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1935
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to certain municipal hotel occupancy taxes.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subdivision (8), Section 351.001, Tax Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (8) "Eligible central municipality" means a
1-6 municipality with a population of more than 440,000 that is located
1-7 in a county with a population of 550,000 [one million] or more and
1-8 that has adopted a capital improvement plan for the expansion of an
1-9 existing convention center facility.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.