Bill Text: TX SB349 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the hotel occupancy tax rate in certain municipalities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB349 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB349-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 349 | ||
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| relating to the hotel occupancy tax rate in certain municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 351.003, Tax Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) The rate in a municipality that has a population of more | ||
| than 95,000 and is in a county that borders Lake Palestine and has a | ||
| population of more than 200,000 may not exceed nine percent of the | ||
| price paid for a room. The municipality shall allocate for the | ||
| construction, expansion, maintenance, or operation of convention | ||
| center facilities all revenue received by the municipality that is | ||
| derived from the application of the tax at a rate of more than seven | ||
| percent of the price paid for a room in a hotel. | ||
| (f) The rate in a municipality that has a population of at | ||
| least 80,000 and is partly located in a county that borders the | ||
| State of Louisiana and has a population of at least 60,000 may not | ||
| exceed nine percent of the price paid for a room. The municipality | ||
| shall allocate for the construction, expansion, maintenance, or | ||
| operation of convention center facilities all revenue received by | ||
| the municipality that is derived from the application of the tax at | ||
| a rate of more than seven percent of the price paid for a room in a | ||
| hotel. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 349 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 31, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2011, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 349 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 20, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 135, | ||
| Nays 13, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
