LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 84TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

April 10, 2015

TO:	Honorable Dennis Bonnen, Chair, House Committee on Ways & Means
FROM:	Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1717 by Oliveira (relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy taxes by certain municipalities for ecological and space exploration-related tourism.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

Local Government Impact

The City South Padre Island, the only city that would qualify under the bill's provisions, would be given the discretion to allocate revenues collected from the municipal hotel occupancy tax for the promotion of ecological and space exploration-related tourism.

Source Agencies:

304 Comptroller of Public Accounts

LBB Staff:

UP, KK, SD, AG