LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                            February 15, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Rene Oliveira, Chair, House Committee on Ways &
               Means
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1022  by McCall (Relating to the recording of
               expenditures of revenue from the municipal hotel
               occupancy tax.), As Introduced
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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The bill would require a municipality or entity funded by the municipal
hotel occupancy tax to list scheduled activities or events funded by the
tax that will directly promote tourism and convention and hotel activity.
The city or entity would have to list the activity or event before
making an expenditure of the tax proceeds.  If a city delegates the
management or supervision of the tax to another entity, then each entity
that would ultimately be funded by the tax must generate the list.  A
municipality or entity would be able to add items to its list of hotel
occupancy tax funded activities at any time.  The list would be provided
to the city secretary or the official custodian of records for the city.

Current law requires the municipal hotel occupancy tax to be used to
directly promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry.
Additionally, municipalities and entities must maintain records that
identify the receipt and expenditure of all revenue derived from the tax.
Current law does not require that the funded entities indicate which of
their hotel occupancy tax funded programs or activities directly promote
tourism and convention and hotel industry.

The bill would take effect September 1, 2001.
  
Local Government Impact
  
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.

Local government entities would experience a small administrative cost
for preparing, maintaining, and submitting lists of how hotel occupancy
taxes were used.
  
  
Source Agencies:   304   Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:         JK, SD, WP, DB