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.