1-1 By: Staples S.B. No. 1315
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2001; March 13, 2001, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 19, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 April 19, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1315 By: Staples
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the use of revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy
1-11 tax.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 351.101, Tax Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) Revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax may be
1-16 used only to promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry,
1-17 and that use is limited to the following:
1-18 (1) the acquisition of sites for and the construction,
1-19 improvement, enlarging, equipping, repairing, operation, and
1-20 maintenance of convention center facilities or visitor information
1-21 centers, or both;
1-22 (2) the furnishing of facilities, personnel, and
1-23 materials for the registration of convention delegates or
1-24 registrants;
1-25 (3) advertising and conducting solicitations and
1-26 promotional programs to attract tourists and convention delegates
1-27 or registrants to the municipality or its vicinity;
1-28 (4) the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and
1-29 application of the arts, including instrumental and vocal music,
1-30 dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and
1-31 allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft
1-32 arts, motion pictures, radio, television, tape and sound recording,
1-33 and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution,
1-34 and exhibition of these major art forms; [and]
1-35 (5) historical restoration and preservation projects
1-36 or activities or advertising and conducting solicitations and
1-37 promotional programs to encourage tourists and convention delegates
1-38 to visit preserved historic sites or museums:
1-39 (A) at or in the immediate vicinity of
1-40 convention center facilities or visitor information centers; or
1-41 (B) located elsewhere in the municipality or its
1-42 vicinity that would be frequented by tourists and convention
1-43 delegates; and
1-44 (6) expenses, including promotion expenses, directly
1-45 related to a sporting event in which the majority of participants
1-46 are tourists who substantially increase economic activity at hotels
1-47 and motels within the municipality or its vicinity.
1-48 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-49 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-50 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-51 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-52 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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