Bill Text: TX HB1004 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the hotel occupancy tax rate in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-28 - Left pending in committee [HB1004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1004-Introduced.html
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By: Hopson | H.B. No. 1004 |
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relating to the hotel occupancy tax rate in certain municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 351.003, Tax Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) The rate in a municipality that has a population of more | ||
than 95,000 and is in a county that borders Lake Palestine and has a | ||
population of more than 200,000 may not exceed nine percent of the | ||
price paid for a room. | ||
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, 2011. |