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.