Bill Text: TX HB3453 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relating to authorizing certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax and the applicability and rates of that tax in certain counties.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3453 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3453-Enrolled.html
 
 
  H.B. No. 3453
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to authorizing certain counties to impose a hotel
  occupancy tax and the applicability and rates of that tax in certain
  counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 352.002, Tax Code, is amended by adding
  Subsection (ee) to read as follows:
         (ee)  The commissioners court of a county that has a
  population of 800,000 or more and is adjacent to a county with a
  population of four million or more may impose a tax as provided by
  Subsection (a).
         SECTION 2.  Section 352.003, Tax Code, is amended by adding
  Subsection (bb) to read as follows:
         (bb)  The tax rate in a county authorized to impose the tax
  under Section 352.002(ee) may not exceed seven percent of the price
  paid for a room in a hotel, except that the tax rate 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 a
  municipality that imposes a tax under Section 351.0025 applicable
  to the hotel.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3453 was passed by the House on May 2,
  2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 103, Nays 42, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 3453 on May 26, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 116, Nays 26,
  1 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3453 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 24, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 25, Nays
  5, 1 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor       
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