1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy
1-3 tax by certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 351.101, Tax Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax may be
1-8 used only to promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry,
1-9 and that use is limited to the following:
1-10 (1) the acquisition of sites for and the construction,
1-11 improvement, enlarging, equipping, repairing, operation, and
1-12 maintenance of convention center facilities or visitor information
1-13 centers, or both;
1-14 (2) the furnishing of facilities, personnel, and
1-15 materials for the registration of convention delegates or
1-16 registrants;
1-17 (3) advertising and conducting solicitations and
1-18 promotional programs to attract tourists and convention delegates
1-19 or registrants to the municipality or its vicinity;
1-20 (4) the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and
1-21 application of the arts, including instrumental and vocal music,
1-22 dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and
1-23 allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft
1-24 arts, motion pictures, radio, television, tape and sound recording,
1-25 and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution,
2-1 and exhibition of these major art forms; [and]
2-2 (5) historical restoration and preservation projects
2-3 or activities or advertising and conducting solicitations and
2-4 promotional programs to encourage tourists and convention delegates
2-5 to visit preserved historic sites or museums:
2-6 (A) at or in the immediate vicinity of
2-7 convention center facilities or visitor information centers; or
2-8 (B) located elsewhere in the municipality or its
2-9 vicinity that would be frequented by tourists and convention
2-10 delegates; and
2-11 (6) for a municipality located in a county with a
2-12 population of 65,000 or less, expenses, including promotion
2-13 expenses, directly related to a sporting event in which the
2-14 majority of participants are tourists who substantially increase
2-15 economic activity at hotels and motels within the municipality or
2-16 its vicinity.
2-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-18 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-19 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-20 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-21 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1315 passed the Senate on
April 25, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0, one
present not voting; and that the Senate concurred in House
amendment on May 25, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0,
one present not voting.
_______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1315 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 23, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 145,
Nays 0, two present not voting.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
_______________________________
Date
_______________________________
Governor