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1		-	By: Raney (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) H.B. No. 3629
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2015;
3		-	May 5, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
4		-	Resources and Economic Development; May 22, 2015, reported
5		-	favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 22, 2015,
6		-	sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 3629
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10		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	4		AN ACT
12	5		relating to use and allocation of municipal hotel occupancy tax
13	6		revenues for certain municipalities.
14	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	8		SECTION 1. Section 351.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding
16	9		Subsection (i) to read as follows:
17	10		(i) In addition to the purposes provided by Subsection (a),
18	11		a municipality that has a population of at least 75,000 but not more
19	12		than 95,000 and that is located in a county that has a population of
20	13		more than 160,000 but less than 200,000 may use revenue from the
21	14		municipal hotel tax to promote tourism and the convention and hotel
22	15		industry by constructing, operating, or expanding a sporting
23	16		related facility or sports field owned by the municipality, if the
24	17		majority of the events at the facility or field are directly related
25	18		to a sporting event in which the majority of participants are
26	19		tourists who substantially increase economic activity at hotels in
27	20		the municipality.
28	21		SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, is amended
29	22		by adding Section 351.1078 to read as follows:
30	23		Sec. 351.1078. ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: CERTAIN
31	24		MUNICIPALITIES. (a) A municipality that spends municipal hotel
32	25		occupancy tax revenue as authorized by Section 351.101(i):
33	26		(1) may not use municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue
34	27		for the acquisition of land for the sporting related facility or
35	28		sports field described by that subsection;
36	29		(2) shall annually determine and prepare and publish
37	30		on the municipality's Internet website a report on the events held
38	31		at the facility or field, the number of hotel room nights
39	32		attributable to events held at the facility or field, and the amount
40	33		of hotel revenue and municipal tax revenue attributable to the
41	34		sports events and tournaments held at the facility or field for five
42	35		years after the date the construction expenditures are completed;
43	36		and
44	37		(3) may only spend hotel occupancy tax revenue for
45	38		operational expenses of the facility or field if the costs are
46	39		directly related to a sporting event in which the majority of
47	40		participants are tourists who substantially increase economic
48	41		activity at hotels in or near the municipality.
49	42		(b) The municipality shall reimburse to the municipality's
50	43		hotel occupancy tax revenue fund from the municipality's general
51	44		fund any expenditure in excess of the amount of area hotel revenue
52	45		attributable to sporting events held at the sporting related
53	46		facility or sports field described by Section 351.101(i) for five
54	47		years after the date the construction or expansion of the facility
55	48		or field described by that subsection is completed.
56	49		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
57	50		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
58	51		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
59	52		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
60	53		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	54	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	55	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	56	+	I certify that H.B. No. 3629 was passed by the House on April
	57	+	30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 4, 1 present, not
	58	+	voting.
	59	+	______________________________
	60	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	61	+	I certify that H.B. No. 3629 was passed by the Senate on May
	62	+	26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
	63	+	______________________________
	64	+	Secretary of the Senate
	65	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	66	+	Date
	67	+	_____________________
	68	+	Governor