S.B. No. 1833
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the rate of the hotel occupancy tax in certain counties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (q), Section 352.003, Tax Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (q)  Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the tax
  rate in a county authorized to impose the tax under Section
  352.002(a)(13) may not exceed seven percent of the price paid for a
  room in the hotel.  The county shall impose the tax authorized under
  Section 352.002(a)(13) at a rate that 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 that
  municipality and the municipality imposes a tax in that area under
  Section 351.0025 applicable to the hotel [If a municipality in the
  county imposes a tax under Chapter 351, the county may impose the
  tax on a hotel to which the municipal tax applies at a rate that,
  when added to the municipal tax rate, does not exceed seven percent
  of the price paid for a room in the hotel].
         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, 2013.
 
 
 
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1833 passed the Senate on
  April 11, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 28, Nays 3.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
 
         I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1833 passed the House on
  May 22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, two
  present not voting.
 
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
 
  Approved:
 
  ______________________________ 
              Date
 
 
  ______________________________ 
            Governor