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. 1-35 * * * * *