By Gray                                               H.B. No. 3252
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to hotel occupancy taxes in an eligible coastal
 1-3     municipality.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 351.105 Tax Code, is amended by adding a
 1-6     new Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  An eligible coastal municipality and a park board of
 1-8     trustees created by the municipality may contract on such terms as
 1-9     they deem advisable for the park board of trustees to use the hotel
1-10     occupancy tax collected by the eligible coastal municipality in
1-11     accordance with this section.  Without further authorization the
1-12     city or the park board of trustees may use the hotel occupancy tax
1-13     collected by the eligible municipality in accordance with the
1-14     provisions of this section and either may issue bonds or enter into
1-15     other agreements secured by the hotel occupancy tax collected by
1-16     the eligible coastal municipality in accordance with the provisions
1-17     of this section.  Article 1269j4.1 Vernons Texas Civil Statute and
1-18     Chapter 306 Local Government Code notwithstanding any provision to
1-19     the contrary in the charter of the eligible coastal municipality.
1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.