By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1684
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the use of state hotel occupancy tax revenue to clean
  and maintain beaches in certain municipalities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subdivision (1), Subsection (c), Section
  156.2512, Tax Code, is amended to read as follows:
               (1)  "Eligible barrier island coastal municipality"
  means a municipality:
                     (A)  that borders on the Gulf of Mexico;
                     (B)  that is located wholly or partly on a barrier
  island; and
                     (C)  the boundaries of which are within 30 miles
  of the United Mexican States or include:
                           (i)  a portion of a national seashore; or
                           (ii)  a national estuarine research reserve.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on the first day of the
  first month beginning on or after the earliest date on which this
  Act may take effect if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the
  members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article
  III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote
  necessary for effect on that date, this Act takes effect September
  1, 2009.