Bill Text: TX HB2370 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use hotel occupancy tax revenue for certain venue projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-03 - Filed [HB2370 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2370-Introduced.html
| By: Lopez of Cameron | H.B. No. 2370 | |
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| relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use hotel | ||
| occupancy tax revenue for certain venue projects. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 334.0082, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) and subject to this | ||
| subsection, this section also applies to a municipality that has a | ||
| population of at least 70,000 but not more than 180,000 and that is | ||
| located in a county that borders the United Mexican States and the | ||
| Gulf of Mexico. A municipality described by this subsection may | ||
| impose a tax as authorized under Subsection (b)(2) only to finance a | ||
| convention center constructed before January 1, 2023. The | ||
| authority of the municipality to impose the tax as authorized under | ||
| Subsection (b)(2) expires on the earlier of: | ||
| (1) the date the debt issued for the convention center | ||
| described by this subsection is repaid; or | ||
| (2) January 1, 2054. (e)Subsection (d) and this subsection | ||
| expire January 1, 2054. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
