By Chavez                                              H.B. No. 174
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a hotel-motel occupance tax exemption for those
 1-3     involved in the production of a motion picture, television program
 1-4     or musical or video recording.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Ch. 156, Tax Code, is amended by adding Sec.
 1-7     156.104, to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 156.104.  EXCEPTION--PRODUCTION OF A MOTION PICTURE,
 1-9     TELEVISION PROGRAM OR MUSICAL OR VIDEO RECORDING.  This Chapter
1-10     does not impose a tax on a corporation or association involved in
1-11     the production of motion picture, television program or musical or
1-12     video recording.
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1998.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.