Sec. 334.254. TAX RATE  


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  • (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the tax authorized by this subchapter may be imposed by a municipality or county at any rate not to exceed two percent of the price paid for a room in a hotel.

    (b) The ballot proposition at the election held to adopt the tax must specify the maximum rate of the tax to be adopted.

    (c) A county with a population of more than two million that is adjacent to a county with a population of more than one million may impose the tax authorized by this subchapter at any rate not to exceed three percent of the price paid for a room in a hotel.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 551, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 164, Sec. 4, eff. May 27, 2003.