1-1 By: Zaffirini, Wentworth S.B. No. 1772 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 23, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 1; 1-6 April 23, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1772 By: Moncrief 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the allocation of revenue from the state hotel tax for 1-11 certain purposes in certain municipalities located in a park and 1-12 recreation district. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 156, Tax Code, is amended 1-15 by adding Section 156.2512 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 156.2512. ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: CERTAIN 1-17 MUNICIPALITIES LOCATED IN A PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT. (a) Not 1-18 later than the last day of the month following a calendar quarter, 1-19 the comptroller shall: 1-20 (1) compute the amount of revenue derived from the 1-21 collection of taxes imposed under this chapter at a rate of one 1-22 quarter of one percent and received from hotels located in a 1-23 municipality with a population of more than 25,000 located in a 1-24 county in which a park and recreation district has been created 1-25 under Chapter 324, Local Government Code; and 1-26 (2) issue to the municipality a warrant drawn on the 1-27 general revenue fund in the amount computed under Subdivision (1). 1-28 (b) A municipality that receives money under this section 1-29 may use the money only to clean and maintain rivers located within 1-30 the boundaries of the municipality. 1-31 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-36 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-37 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-38 * * * * *