1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 935
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 22, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the purposes for which certain municipalities may use
 1-9     revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Sections 351.1012 and 351.1066 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 351.1012.  USE OF REVENUE:  SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.  In
1-14     addition to the uses permitted by Section 351.101(a), a
1-15     municipality with a population of less than 2,000 may use hotel
1-16     occupancy tax revenue to provide police protection in the
1-17     municipality.
1-18           Sec. 351.1066.  ALLOCATION OF REVENUE:  SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.
1-19     The governing body of a municipality with a population of less than
1-20     2,000 may allocate hotel occupancy tax revenue among the permitted
1-21     uses as determined by ordinance.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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