Bill Text: TX HB2199 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2199 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2199-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2199

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. Section 351.1066(a), Tax Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) This section applies only to:
(1) a municipality with a population of at least 3,500
but less than 5,500 that is the county seat of a county with a
population of less than 50,000 that borders a county with a
population of more than 1.6 million;
(2) a municipality with a population of at least 2,900
but less than 3,500 that is the county seat of a county with a
population of less than 22,000 that is bordered by the Trinity River
and includes a state park and a portion of a wildlife management
area;
(3) a municipality with a population of at least 7,500
that is located in a county that borders the Pecos River and that
has a population of not more than 15,000;
(4) a municipality with a population of not more than
5,000 that is located in a county through which the Frio River flows
and an interstate highway crosses, and that has a population of at
least 15,000; [and]
(5) a municipality with a population of not less than
7,500 that is located in a county with a population of not less than
40,000 but less than 250,000 that is adjacent to a county with a
population of less than 750;
(6) a municipality that is the county seat of a county
with a population of at least 8,500 and that county contains part of
the Chaparral Wildlife Management Area; and
(7) a municipality that has a population of not more
than 25,000, that contains a cultural heritage museum, and that is
located in a county that borders the United Mexican States and the
Gulf of Mexico.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2199 was passed by the House on May 3,
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 108, Nays 32, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2199 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 26,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2199 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 25, Nays
6.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor