Amend SB 1296 on third reading by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 16 of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of that ARTICLE accordingly:

SECTION 16.____. Section 352.002(a-1), Tax Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a-1)  In addition to the counties described by Subsection (a), the commissioners court of a county in which an airport essential to the economy of the county is located may by the adoption of an order or resolution impose a tax on a person who, under a lease, concession, permit, right of access, license, contract, or agreement, pays for the use or possession or for the right to the use or possession of a room that is in a hotel, costs $2 or more each day, and is ordinarily used for sleeping.  For the purposes of this subsection, an airport is considered to be essential to the economy of a county only if the airport is a commercial-service international airport within Class C airspace and is located in a county and owned by a municipality each having a population of less than 150,000 [125,000].  This subsection does not apply to a county described by Subsection (a)(13).