Bill Text: TX SB412 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 412 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax for the maintenance, operation, and promotion of a coliseum in the county; authorizing a tax.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective immediately [SB412 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB412-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 412




	AN ACT
	relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel
	occupancy tax for the maintenance, operation, and promotion of a
	coliseum in the county; authorizing a tax.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 352.002, Tax Code, is amended by adding
	Subsection (q) to read as follows:
	(q) The commissioners court of a county with a population of
	less than 200,000 in which a minor league hockey team is or has been
	located and in which a component institution of The University of
	Texas System is located may impose a tax as provided by Subsection
	(a).
	SECTION 2. Section 352.003, Tax Code, is amended by adding
	Subsection (r) to read as follows:
	(r) The tax rate in a county authorized to impose the tax
	under Section 352.002(q) may not exceed two percent of the price
	paid for a room in a hotel.
	SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 352, Tax Code, is amended
	by adding Section 352.1038 to read as follows:
	Sec. 352.1038. USE OF REVENUE: CERTAIN COUNTIES CONTAINING
	UNIVERSITIES. The revenue from a tax imposed under this chapter by
	a county authorized to impose the tax under Section 352.002(q) may
	be used only to:
	(1) operate, maintain, and improve a coliseum in the
	county; and
	(2) advertise and conduct solicitations and
	promotional programs to attract visitors to the coliseum.
	SECTION 4. 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, 2013.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 412 passed the Senate on
	March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 7, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 412 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 142,
	Nays 5, two present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor