Bill Text: TX SB1307 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain municipalities and the authority of certain municipalities to pledge that revenue, and to receive and pledge certain other revenue, for the payment of obligations related to hotel projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1307 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1307-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain municipalities and the authority of certain municipalities to pledge that revenue, and to receive and pledge certain other revenue, for the payment of obligations related to hotel projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1307 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1307-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor | S.B. No. 1307 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2019; March 7, 2019, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources & | ||
Economic Development; April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, | ||
Nays 0; April 8, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1307 | By: Hinojosa |
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relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain | ||
municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 351.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (q) to read as follows: | ||
(q) In addition to the purposes provided by Subsections (a) | ||
and (e), a municipality with a population of more than 10,000 that | ||
has a city hall located less than three miles from a space center | ||
operated by an agency of the federal government and that is wholly | ||
located in a county with a population of four million or more may | ||
use revenue from the hotel occupancy tax for the construction, | ||
improvement, enlarging, equipping, renovating, repairing, | ||
operation, and maintenance of a coliseum or multiuse facility and | ||
related infrastructure or a venue, as defined by Section | ||
334.001(4), Local Government Code, that is related to the promotion | ||
of tourism, including a hotel, resort, or convention center | ||
facility located on land owned by the municipality or a nonprofit | ||
corporation acting on behalf of the municipality. | ||
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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