By: Zaffirini, Wentworth S.B. No. 1772 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the allocation of revenue from certain hotel taxes for 1-2 certain purposes in certain municipalities located in a park and 1-3 recreation district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 351.107 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 351.107. ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES 1-8 LOCATED IN A PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT. If the tax authorized 1-9 under this chapter is imposed by a municipality with a population 1-10 of more than 25,000 located in a county in which a park and 1-11 recreation district has been created under Chapter 324, Local 1-12 Government Code, the use of money received from the tax imposed 1-13 under this chapter to clean and maintain rivers located within the 1-14 boundaries of the municipality complies with the requirements of 1-15 Section 351.101. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.