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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the hotel occupancy tax rate in certain municipalities. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 351.003, Tax Code, is amended by adding | 
      
        |  | Subsection (e) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (e)  The rate in a municipality that has a population of more | 
      
        |  | than 95,000 and is in a county that borders Lake Palestine and has a | 
      
        |  | population of more than 200,000 may not exceed nine percent of the | 
      
        |  | price paid for a room. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately 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 immediate effect, this | 
      
        |  | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |