By: Jackson S.B. No. 1666 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to hotel occupancy taxes in an eligible coastal 1-2 municipality. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 351.105 Tax Code, is amended by adding a 1-5 new Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (f) An eligible coastal municipality and a park board of 1-7 trustees created by the municipality may contract on such terms as 1-8 they deem advisable for the park board of trustees to use the hotel 1-9 occupancy tax collected by the eligible coastal municipality in 1-10 accordance with this section. Without further authorization the 1-11 city or the park board of trustees may use the hotel occupancy tax 1-12 collected by the eligible municipality in accordance with the 1-13 provisions of this section and either may issue bonds or enter into 1-14 other agreements secured by the hotel occupancy tax collected by 1-15 the eligible coastal municipality in accordance with the provisions 1-16 of this section, Article 1269j4.1 Vernons Texas Civil Statute and 1-17 Chapter 306 Local Government Code notwithstanding any provision to 1-18 the contrary in the charter of the eligible coastal municipality. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.