| 1 | 1 | | By: Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1033 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2011; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 9, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic |
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| 4 | 4 | | Development; May 20, 2011, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | 5 | | vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 20, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a county |
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| 11 | 11 | | hotel occupancy tax. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 352.002, Tax Code, is amended by adding |
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| 14 | 14 | | Subsection (j) to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (j) The commissioners court of a county that has a |
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| 16 | 16 | | population of less than 8,000, that borders the Pecos River, and |
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| 17 | 17 | | that borders another county with a population of more than 120,000 |
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| 18 | 18 | | may impose a tax as provided by Subsection (a). The tax imposed |
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| 19 | 19 | | under this subsection does not apply to a hotel located in a |
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| 20 | 20 | | municipality that imposes a tax under Chapter 351 applicable to the |
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| 21 | 21 | | hotel. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 23 | 23 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 24 | 24 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 26 | 26 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 27 | 27 | | * * * * * |
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