By Brimer H.B. No. 2844
76R1177 CBH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the purposes for which the municipal hotel occupancy
1-3 tax may be used.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 351.001(2), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (2) "Convention center facilities" or "convention
1-8 center complex" means facilities that are primarily used to host
1-9 conventions and meetings. The term includes civic centers, civic
1-10 center buildings, auditoriums, and exhibition halls [, and
1-11 coliseums] that are owned by the municipality or other
1-12 governmental entity or that are managed in whole or part by the
1-13 municipality, hotels owned by the municipality or a nonprofit
1-14 municipally sponsored local government corporation created under
1-15 Chapter 431, Transportation Code, within 1,000 feet of a convention
1-16 center owned by a municipality with a population of 1,500,000 or
1-17 more, or a historic hotel owned by a municipality or a nonprofit
1-18 municipally sponsored local government corporation created under
1-19 Chapter 431, Transportation Code, within one mile of a convention
1-20 center owned by a municipality with a population of 1,500,000 or
1-21 more. The term includes parking areas or facilities that are for
1-22 the parking or storage of conveyances and that are located at or in
1-23 the vicinity of other convention center facilities.
1-24 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-1 (b) This Act does not apply to the use of tax revenue
2-2 pledged to secure bonds issued before the effective date of this
2-3 Act. Tax revenue pledged to secure bonds issued before the
2-4 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
2-5 date the bonds were issued, and that law is continued in effect for
2-6 that purpose.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.