Bill Text: TX HB4755 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use hotel occupancy tax revenue for certain venue projects.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-21 - Referred to Economic Development [HB4755 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB4755-Engrossed.html
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| By: Lopez of Cameron, Muñoz, Guillen, | H.B. No. 4755 | |
| Raymond, Lujan, et al. | ||
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| relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use hotel | ||
| occupancy tax revenue for certain venue projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 334.0082, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) and subject to this | ||
| subsection, this section also applies to 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. A municipality | ||
| described by this subsection may impose a tax as authorized under | ||
| Subsection (b)(2) only to finance a convention center constructed | ||
| before January 1, 2025. The authority of the municipality to impose | ||
| the tax as authorized under Subsection (b)(2) expires on the | ||
| earlier of: | ||
| (1) the date the debt issued for the convention center | ||
| described by this subsection is repaid; or | ||
| (2) January 1, 2056. | ||
| (e) Subsection (d) and this subsection expire January 1, | ||
| 2056. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
