By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1935

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to municipal hotel occupancy taxes.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 351.001, Tax Code, is amended to read as

 1-4     follows:

 1-5                 (8)  "Eligible central municipality" means a

 1-6     municipality with a population of more than 444,000 that is located

 1-7     in a county with a population of [one million] 550,000 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.