HBA-MPA H.B. 1116 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1116
By: Solis, Jim
Ways & Means
4/15/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

H.B. 1116 allows municipalities with a population of 2,000 or less to use
municipal hotel/motel tax revenue to provide law enforcement. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 351, Tax Code, by adding Sections
351.1012 and 351.1066, as follows: 

Sec. 351.1012. USE OF REVENUE: SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.  Authorizes a
municipality with a population of less than 2,000 to use hotel occupancy
tax revenue to provide police protection, in addition to the uses permitted
by Section 351.101(a) which authorizes the tax to be used only to promote
tourism and the convention and hotel industry. 

Sec. 351.1066.  ALLOCATION OF REVENUE: SMALL MUNICIPALITIES.  Authorizes a
municipality with a population of less than 2,000 to allocate hotel
occupancy tax revenue among the permitted uses as determined by ordinance. 

SECTION 2.  Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.