Amend CSHB 2424 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering other SECTIONS 
accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 351.101(a), Tax Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  
	(a)  Revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax may be 
used only to promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry, 
and that use is limited to the following:
(1)  the acquisition of sites for and the 
construction, improvement, enlarging, equipping, repairing, 
operation, and maintenance of convention center facilities or 
visitor information centers, or both;
(2)  the furnishing of facilities, personnel, and 
materials for the registration of convention delegates or 
registrants;
(3)  advertising and conducting solicitations and 
promotional programs to attract tourists and convention delegates 
or registrants to the municipality or its vicinity;
(4)  the encouragement, promotion, improvement, and 
application of the arts, including instrumental and vocal music, 
dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and 
allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft 
arts, motion pictures, radio, television, tape and sound recording, 
and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, 
and exhibition of these major art forms;
(5)  historical restoration and preservation projects 
or activities or advertising and conducting solicitations and 
promotional programs to encourage tourists and convention 
delegates to visit preserved historic sites or museums:
(A)  at or in the immediate vicinity of 
convention center facilities or visitor information centers; or
(B)  located elsewhere in the municipality or 
its vicinity that would be frequented by tourists and convention 
delegates; and
(6)  for a municipality located in a county with 
population of 290,000 [65,000] or less, expenses, including 
promotion expenses, directly related to a sporting event in which 
the majority of participants are tourists who substantially 
increase economic activity at hotels and motels within the 
municipality or its vicinity.
	SECTION ____.  Section 351.102, Tax Code, is amended to read 
as follows:     
	(c)  A municipality to which subsection (b) applies is 
entitled to receive all funds that an owner of a project may receive 
under Section 151.429(h), Tax Code.