Bill Text: TX SB2166 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenues in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB2166 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB2166-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2166 | ||
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| relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenues 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 | ||
| Subsections (m) and (m-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (m) In addition to the uses authorized by Subsections (a) | ||
| and (e), and notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the | ||
| contrary, a municipality with a population of 6,500 or less that has | ||
| at least 800 hotel rooms within the corporate boundaries of the | ||
| municipality and that is located in a county adjacent to a county | ||
| with a population of 3.3 million or more may use revenue derived | ||
| from the tax authorized by this chapter to directly enhance and | ||
| promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry by acquiring | ||
| sites for and constructing, improving, enlarging, equipping, | ||
| repairing, operating, and maintaining a municipally owned: | ||
| (1) convention center facility; | ||
| (2) sports-related facility with seating for at least | ||
| 4,500 people that is used or is planned for use for one or more | ||
| professional or amateur sports events or other events, including | ||
| rodeos, livestock shows, and performing arts events; | ||
| (3) multiuse facility that includes facilities | ||
| described by Subdivisions (1) and (2); and | ||
| (4) related infrastructure for a facility described by | ||
| Subdivision (1), (2), or (3), as that term is defined by Section | ||
| 334.001(3), Local Government Code, for a venue. | ||
| (m-1) A municipality described by Subsection (m) that | ||
| issues obligations secured wholly or partly by revenue derived from | ||
| the tax authorized by this chapter for a use described by that | ||
| subsection may use that revenue for those uses as long as the | ||
| obligations are outstanding even if the municipality is no longer a | ||
| municipality described by that subsection. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2166 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2166 passed the House on | ||
| May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 11, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
