Bill Text: TX HB4494 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to eligible coastal municipalities for purposes of the municipal hotel occupancy tax.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-11 - Effective immediately [HB4494 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4494-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4494 | ||
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| relating to eligible coastal municipalities for purposes of the | ||
| municipal hotel occupancy tax. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 351.001(3), Tax Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (3) "Eligible coastal municipality" means: | ||
| (A) a home-rule municipality that borders on the | ||
| Gulf of Mexico and has a population of less than 80,000; or | ||
| (B) a municipality that borders on the Gulf of | ||
| Mexico and has a population of less than 1,500. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4494 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 121, Nays 23, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4494 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 7. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
