By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 935
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the purposes for which certain municipalities may use
 1-2     revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Sections 351.1012 and 351.1066 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 351.1012.  USE OF REVENUE:  SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.  In
 1-7     addition to the uses permitted by Section 351.101(a), a
 1-8     municipality with a population of less than 2,000 may use hotel
 1-9     occupancy tax revenue to provide police protection in the
1-10     municipality.
1-11           Sec. 351.1066.  ALLOCATION OF REVENUE:  SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.
1-12     The governing body of a municipality with a population of less than
1-13     2,000 may allocate hotel occupancy tax revenue among the permitted
1-14     uses as determined by ordinance.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.