86R9602 SMT-F
 
  By: Bohac H.B. No. 3864
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the expenditure of municipal hotel occupancy tax
  revenue allocated by certain municipalities for certain purposes.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended
  by adding Section 351.111 to read as follows:
         Sec. 351.111.  EXPENDITURE OF ALLOCATED REVENUE: ELIGIBLE
  COASTAL MUNICIPALITY AND CERTAIN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES. (a) This
  section applies only to:
               (1)  an eligible coastal municipality; and
               (2)  a municipality with a population of more than
  750,000 and less than one million.
         (b)  If a municipality allocates a percentage of the hotel
  occupancy tax revenue the municipality collects for the purposes
  provided by Section 351.101(a)(5) for a site or museum not
  primarily visited by tourists, the municipality may not spend any
  portion of the allocated hotel occupancy tax revenue for that site
  or museum in a fiscal year in an amount that exceeds the amount of
  hotel occupancy tax revenue the municipality proposes to spend for
  the site or museum for that fiscal year multiplied by the
  municipality's good faith estimate of the percentage that the
  annual number of tourists visiting the site or museum bears to the
  total annual number of visitors to the site or museum.
         (c)  A municipality shall require a site or museum to report
  the annual numbers of tourists visiting the site or museum and total
  visitors to the site or museum for the purposes of making the good
  faith estimate described by Subsection (b).
         (d)  To the extent that hotel occupancy tax revenue collected
  and allocated for a purpose described by Section 351.101(a)(5) may
  not be spent because of the limitation provided by Subsection (b),
  the municipality may allocate that revenue in the following fiscal
  year in the manner provided by this chapter.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.