By Gray H.B. No. 3252 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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.