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Amend CSSB 1466 as follows:                                                  
	1)  Insert the following new SECTION where appropriate and 
number accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 351.002 Tax Code is amended by adding 
a new Subdivision (11) to read as follows:
(11)  "Eligible collegiate municipality" means a 
municipality with a population of 195,000 or more that includes in 
its corporate limits an institution of higher education (as defined 
in Section 61.003(8), Texas Education Code) that offers a degree in 
the field of hospitality and tourism.  In an "eligible collegiate 
municipality," the term "convention center facilities" or 
"convention center complex" means such term as defined in Section 
351.001(2) or civic centers, civic center buildings, auditoriums, 
exhibition halls, and coliseums that are owned by the municipality 
or other governmental entity or that are managed in part by the 
municipality, hotels owned by the municipality, a nonprofit 
municipally sponsored local government corporation created under 
Chapter 431 Texas Transportation Code, or a nonprofit corporation 
created in conformity with Section 509(a)(3) of the United States 
Internal Revenue Code, that are in the proximity of the campus of 
the institution of higher education and are within 2500 feet of an 
auditorium/coliseum complex owned by the municipality.  The term 
includes parking areas or facilities that are for the parking or 
storage of conveyances and that are located at or in the vicinity of 
other convention center facilities."
	(2)  Insert the following new SECTION where appropriate and 
number accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 351.102(b), Tax Code is amended to 
read as follows:   
	(b)  An eligible central municipality or an eligible 
collegiate municipality may pledge the revenue derived from the tax 
imposed under this chapter from a hotel project that is owned by or 
located on land owned by the municipality or by a nonprofit 
corporation acting on behalf of an eligible central municipality or 
an eligible collegiate municipality and that is located within 
1,000 feet of a convention center facility owned by the 
municipality or located as otherwise provided in Sec. 351.001(11) 
of the Tax Code for the payment of bonds or other obligations issued 
or incurred to acquire, lease, construct, and equip the hotel and 
any facilities ancillary to the hotel, including shops and parking 
facilities.  For bonds or other obligations issued under this 
subsection, an eligible central municipality or an eligible 
collegiate municipality may only pledge revenue or other assets of 
the hotel project benefitting from those bonds or other 
obligations."
	(3)  Insert the following new SECTION where appropriate and 
number accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 1504.001(b), Government Code by 
revising Subsection (b) to read as follows:
	(b)  An eligible central municipality or an eligible 
collegiate municipality, as defined by Section 351.001, Tax Code, 
may establish, acquire, lease as lessee or lessor, construct, 
improve, enlarge, equip, repair, operate, or maintain a hotel, and 
any facilities ancillary to the hotel, including shops and parking 
facilities, that are owned by or located on land owned by the 
municipality or by a nonprofit corporation acting on behalf of the 
municipality, and that is located within 1,000 feet of a convention 
center facility owned by the municipality or located as otherwise 
provided in Sec. 351.001(11), Tax Code."
	(4)  Insert the following new SECTION where appropriate and 
number accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 2303.003(8), Government Code is 
amended by striking the period at the end of subdivision (8) and 
inserting the following:

or as otherwise defined in Sec. 351.001(11), Tax Code."                
	(5)  Insert the following new SECTION where appropriate and 
number accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 2303.5055(b), Government Code is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  A municipality with a population of 1,500,000 or more or 
an eligible collegiate municipality as defined in Sec. 351.001, Tax 
Code may agree to guarantee from hotel occupancy taxes the bonds or 
other obligations of a municipally sponsored local government 
corporation created under the Texas Transportation Corporation Act 
(Article 15281, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) or a nonprofit 
corporation created in conformity with 509(a)(3) of the United 
States Internal Revenue Code that were issued or incurred to pay the 
cost of construction, remodeling, or rehabilitation of a qualified 
hotel project.