By: Haywood S.B. No. 1395
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the definition of a convention center for purposes of
1-2 the hotel occupancy tax.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 351.001(2), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (2) "Convention center facilities" or "convention center
1-7 complex" means facilities that are primarily used to host
1-8 conventions and meetings. The term means civic centers, civic
1-9 center buildings, auditoriums, and exhibition halls[, and
1-10 coliseums] that are owned by the municipality or other governmental
1-11 entity or that are managed in whole or part by the municipality,
1-12 hotels owned by the municipality or a nonprofit municipally
1-13 sponsored local government corporation created under Chapter 431,
1-14 Transportation Code, within 1,000 feet of a convention center owned
1-15 by a municipality with a population of 1,500,000 or more, or a
1-16 historic hotel owned by a municipality or a nonprofit municipally
1-17 sponsored local government corporation created under Chapter 431,
1-18 Transportation Code, within one mile of a convention center owned
1-19 by a municipality with a population of 1,500,000 or more. The term
1-20 includes parking areas or facilities that are for the parking or
1-21 storage of conveyances and that are located at or in the vicinity
1-22 of other convention center facilities.
2-1 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-2 (b) This Act does not apply to the use of tax revenue
2-3 pledged to secure bonds issued before the effective date of this
2-4 Act. Tax revenue pledged to secure bonds issued before the
2-5 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
2-6 date the bonds were issued, and that law is continued in effect for
2-7 that purpose.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.