By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1666
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                                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.