By Solis of Cameron                                   H.B. No. 1116
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                                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.