By: Staples S.B. No. 1315
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy
1-3 tax.
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) expenses, including promotion expenses, directly
2-12 related to a sporting event in which the majority of participants
2-13 are tourists who substantially increase economic activity at hotels
2-14 and motels within the municipality or its vicinity.
2-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-16 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-17 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-18 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-19 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.