By: Uresti S.B. No. 1833
(In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2013; March 20, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
March 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4,
Nays 0; March 27, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the rate of the hotel occupancy tax in certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (q), Section 352.003, Tax Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(q) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the tax
rate in a county authorized to impose the tax under Section
352.002(a)(13) may not exceed seven percent of the price paid for a
room in the hotel. The county shall impose the tax authorized under
Section 352.002(a)(13) at a rate that may not exceed two percent of
the price paid for a room in a hotel if the hotel is located in:
(1) a municipality that imposes a tax under Chapter
351 applicable to the hotel; or
(2) the extraterritorial jurisdiction of that
municipality and the municipality imposes a tax in that area under
Section 351.0025 applicable to the hotel [If a municipality in the
county imposes a tax under Chapter 351, the county may impose the
tax on a hotel to which the municipal tax applies at a rate that,
when added to the municipal tax rate, does not exceed seven percent
of the price paid for a room in the 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, 2013.
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