1-1     By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1666
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1666                   By:  Nixon
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the use of the hotel tax in certain municipalities;
1-11     authorizing the issuance of bonds.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 351.105, Tax Code, is amended by adding
1-14     Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
1-15           (f)  An eligible coastal municipality and a park board of
1-16     trustees created by the municipality may:
1-17                 (1)  contract for the park board to use the tax
1-18     authorized by this chapter as provided by this section; and
1-19                 (2)  without further authorization, use the tax
1-20     authorized by this chapter as provided by this section, including
1-21     for the purpose of issuing bonds or entering into other agreements.
1-22           (g)  The following statutes prevail over any conflicting
1-23     provision in the charter of an eligible coastal municipality:
1-24                 (1)  this section;
1-25                 (2)  Chapter 306, Local Government Code; and
1-26                 (3)  Chapter 63, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular
1-27     Session, 1965 (Article 1269j-4.1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
1-28           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.
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