SB1553 - Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax.

      By: Flores  S.B. No. 1553          (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2025; March 6, 2025,   read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;   May 5, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,   Nays 0; May 5, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel   occupancy tax.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 352.002, Tax Code, is amended by adding   Subsection (gg) to read as follows:           (gg)     The commissioners court of a county in which the   headwaters of the Guadalupe River are located may impose a tax as   provided by Subsection (a). A tax imposed under this subsection   does not apply to a hotel located in a municipality that imposes a   tax under Chapter 351 applicable to 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, 2025.     * * * * *