1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1935
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 23, 1997; April 24, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; May 6, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 6, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to certain municipal hotel occupancy taxes.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subdivision (8), Section 351.001, Tax Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (8) "Eligible central municipality" means a
1-13 municipality with a population of more than 440,000 that is located
1-14 in a county with a population of 550,000 [one million] or more and
1-15 that has adopted a capital improvement plan for the expansion of an
1-16 existing convention center facility.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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