By Solis of Cameron H.B. No. 1116 76R3149 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the purposes for which certain municipalities may use 1-3 revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Sections 351.1012 and 351.1066 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 351.1012. USE OF REVENUE: SMALL MUNICIPALITIES. In 1-8 addition to the uses permitted by Section 351.101(a), a 1-9 municipality with a population of less than 2,000 may use hotel 1-10 occupancy tax revenue to provide police protection in the 1-11 municipality. 1-12 Sec. 351.1066. ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: SMALL MUNICIPALITIES. 1-13 The governing body of a municipality with a population of less than 1-14 2,000 may allocate hotel occupancy tax revenue among the permitted 1-15 uses as determined by ordinance. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.