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.
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