Bill Text: TX SB2181 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain municipalities for certain projects.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB2181 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB2181-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 2181 |
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relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain | ||
municipalities for certain projects. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 334.2515, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 334.2515. APPLICATION. Except as provided by Sections | ||
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the financing of a venue project that is: | ||
(1) an area described by Section 334.001(4)(C); | ||
(2) an area or facility that is part of a municipal | ||
parks and recreation system as described by Section 334.001(4)(D); | ||
(3) a project described by Section 334.001(4)(E), | ||
except for a project described by Section 334.001(4)(A); or | ||
(4) a facility described by Section 334.001(4)(G). | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 334, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 334.2518 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 334.2518. USE OF REVENUE BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES FOR | ||
CERTAIN PARK FACILITIES. (a) This section applies only to a | ||
municipality that has a population of more than 1 million but less | ||
than 1.3 million. | ||
(b) Subject to Subsection (c), a municipality to which this | ||
section applies may acquire, construct, and improve a venue project | ||
that is an amphitheater, arena, exhibit hall, music hall, or | ||
stadium located within a municipally owned park that is at least 100 | ||
acres in size and all or part of which is designated as a national | ||
historic landmark district, if the applicable type of facility is | ||
specifically listed in the ballot proposition for a venue project | ||
for the expansion of an existing convention center facility that | ||
primarily hosts conventions and has at least one million square | ||
feet of meeting space. | ||
(c) A municipality may not spend more than 20 percent of the | ||
revenue from the convention center facility expansion venue project | ||
described by Subsection (b) for costs related to an amphitheater, | ||
arena, exhibit hall, music hall, or stadium located within a | ||
municipally owned park. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2181 passed the Senate on | ||
May 12, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3; and that the | ||
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2181 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 106, | ||
Nays 41, two present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |