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 |
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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. |