76R10887 DAK-D                           
         By Gray                                               H.B. No. 3252
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3252:
         By Oliveira                                       C.S.H.B. No. 3252
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the use of the hotel tax in certain municipalities.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 351.105, Tax Code, is amended by adding
 1-5     Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
 1-6           (f)  An eligible coastal municipality and a park board of
 1-7     trustees created by the municipality may:
 1-8                 (1)  contract for the park board to use the tax
 1-9     authorized by this chapter as provided by this section; and
1-10                 (2)  without further authorization, use the tax
1-11     authorized by this chapter as provided by this section, including
1-12     for the purpose of issuing bonds or entering into other agreements.
1-13           (g)  The following statutes prevail over any conflicting
1-14     provision in the charter of an eligible coastal municipality:
1-15                 (1)  this section;
1-16                 (2)  Chapter 306, Local Government Code; and
1-17                 (3)  Chapter 63, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular
1-18     Session, 1965 (Article 1269j-4.1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.