By Zaffirini, et al. S.B. No. 1772
76R8869 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the allocation of revenue from the state hotel tax for
1-3 certain purposes in certain municipalities located in a park and
1-4 recreation district.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 156, Tax Code, is amended
1-7 by adding Section 156.2512 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 156.2512. ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: CERTAIN
1-9 MUNICIPALITIES LOCATED IN A PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT. (a) Not
1-10 later than the last day of the month following a calendar quarter,
1-11 the comptroller shall:
1-12 (1) compute the amount of revenue derived from the
1-13 collection of taxes imposed under this chapter at a rate of two
1-14 percent and received from hotels located in a municipality with a
1-15 population of more than 25,000 located in a county in which a park
1-16 and recreation district has been created under Chapter 324, Local
1-17 Government Code; and
1-18 (2) issue to the municipality a warrant drawn on the
1-19 general revenue fund in the amount computed under Subdivision (1).
1-20 (b) A municipality that receives money under this section
1-21 may use the money only to clean and maintain rivers located within
1-22 the boundaries of the municipality.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.