Bill Text: TX HB3595 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue in certain municipalities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3595 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3595-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3595 | ||
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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. Section 351.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) In addition to the uses authorized by Subsection (a), a | ||
| municipality described by Subsection (a)(7)(B)(viii), as added by | ||
| Chapter 546 (S.B. 585), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2013, may use revenue derived from the tax authorized by | ||
| this chapter to promote tourism and the convention and hotel | ||
| industry by constructing, maintaining, or expanding a | ||
| sporting-related facility owned by the municipality if: | ||
| (1) the majority of the events at the facility involve | ||
| participants staying at hotels in the municipality; and | ||
| (2) for a fiscal year, the municipality does not | ||
| reduce the amount of that revenue that it uses for a purpose | ||
| described by Subsection (a)(3) to an amount that is less than the | ||
| lesser of: | ||
| (A) the amount of that revenue used by the | ||
| municipality for that purpose during the municipality's 2015 fiscal | ||
| year; or | ||
| (B) the total amount of that revenue received in | ||
| the fiscal year. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3595 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 8, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3595 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
