Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1		By: Birdwell S.B. No. 2779
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed March 14, 2025; April 3, 2025, read
3		-	first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
4		-	April 16, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5		-	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1; April 16, 2025,
6		-	sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
8		-	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2779 By: Sparks
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13	6		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
14	7		AN ACT
15	8		relating to the allocation and use of certain hotel occupancy tax
16	9		revenues.
17	10		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
18		-	SECTION 1. Section 156.2511, Tax Code, is amended by adding
19		-	Subsections (a-1) and (b-1) and amending Subsection (b) to read as
20		-	follows:
21		-	(a-1) An eligible coastal municipality that receives a
22		-	warrant issued under Subsection (a) shall transfer the full amount
23		-	of the warrant to the park board of trustees created by the
24		-	municipality not later than the last day of the calendar month
25		-	immediately following the date the municipality received the
26		-	warrant.
	11	+	SECTION 1. Section 156.2511, Tax Code, is amended by
	12	+	amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to
	13	+	read as follows:
	14	+	(a) Not later than the last day of the month following a
	15	+	calendar quarter, the comptroller shall:
	16	+	(1) compute the amount of revenue derived from the
	17	+	collection of taxes imposed under this chapter at a rate of two
	18	+	percent and received from hotels located in an eligible coastal
	19	+	municipality that has created a park board of trustees to
	20	+	administer public beaches under Chapter 306, Local Government Code;
	21	+	and
	22	+	(2) issue to the park board of trustees created by the
	23	+	eligible coastal municipality a warrant drawn on the general
	24	+	revenue fund in the amount computed under Subdivision (1).
27	25		(b) Money [An eligible coastal municipality may use money]
28	26		received under this section may be used only to clean and maintain
29	27		public beaches in the eligible coastal [that] municipality.
30	28		(b-1) The comptroller may issue a warrant under this section
31	29		only if the eligible coastal municipality has:
32	30		(1) allocated at least one percent of the tax imposed
33	31		by the municipality under Chapter 351 to clean and maintain public
34		-	beaches in the municipality;
	32	+	beaches in the municipality; and
35	33		(2) either:
36	34		(A) applied for state funds under Subchapter C,
37	35		Chapter 61, Natural Resources Code; or
38	36		(B) made available to the comptroller the same
39	37		information required to be contained in an application under
40		-	Section 61.069, Natural Resources Code; and
41		-	(3) on the request of the comptroller, submitted to
42		-	the comptroller:
43		-	(A) financial data necessary to demonstrate that
44		-	the municipality has satisfied the requirements of Subdivision (1);
45		-	and
46		-	(B) a signed attestation stating that the
47		-	municipality has satisfied the requirements of this subsection.
	38	+	Section 61.069, Natural Resources Code.
48	39		SECTION 2. Section 351.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding
49	40		Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
50	41		(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), revenue derived from
51	42		the tax authorized by this chapter may not be expended in a manner
52		-	or by a program or activity that discriminates or prioritizes on the
53		-	basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national
54		-	origin.
	43	+	or by a program or activity that discriminates on the basis of race,
	44	+	color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin.
55	45		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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