Bill Text: TX HB4581 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue in certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB4581 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4581-Introduced.html
  86R13349 GRM-D
 
  By: Zwiener H.B. No. 4581
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue in
  certain municipalities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended
  by adding Section 351.10691 to read as follows:
         Sec. 351.10691.  ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: CERTAIN
  MUNICIPALITIES.  (a)  This section applies only to a municipality
  that is bisected by U.S. Highway 290 and is located in a county
  that:
               (1)  is adjacent to the county in which the State
  Capitol is located; and
               (2)  has a population of at least 100,000 but not more
  than 200,000.
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a
  municipality to which this section applies may use revenue from the
  municipal hotel occupancy tax for the construction and maintenance
  of paths and trails.
         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, 2019.
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