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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to assessment collection in certain public improvement | 
      
        |  | districts. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 372.0035, Local Government Code, is | 
      
        |  | amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (d)  A municipality that undertakes a project under this | 
      
        |  | section may: | 
      
        |  | (1)  adopt procedures for the collection of assessments | 
      
        |  | under this chapter that are consistent with the municipality's | 
      
        |  | procedures for the collection of a hotel occupancy tax under | 
      
        |  | Chapter 351, Tax Code; and | 
      
        |  | (2)  pursue remedies for the failure to pay an | 
      
        |  | assessment under this chapter that are available to the | 
      
        |  | municipality for failure to pay a hotel occupancy tax under Chapter | 
      
        |  | 351, Tax Code. | 
      
        |  | 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, 2013. |