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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for hotel and convention center projects and other qualified projects."
+description: "Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for hotel and convention center projects and other qualified projects."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 4347"
+citation: "Texas HB 4347 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["City Government--Finance (I0062)", "Labor--Workforce Development (I0495)", "Taxation--General (I0815)", "Taxation--Hotel", "Motel Occupancy (I0806)", "BONDS (S6060)", "CONVENTIONS & CONVENTION CENTERS (S0348)", "HOTELS & MOTELS (S0171)", "COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anchia", "Bonnen, Greg", "Moody", "Nelson", "Turner, Chris", "Zerwas"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 67
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-03-08"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61e6c374-c20a-42b0-9900-b658ddbadc65"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB04300_HB04399/HB 4347.xml"
+source_hash: "a363da1cb7c8628628475167415030172dbe1cd09d93df63d0495fae68236da4"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas HB 4347 (86) — Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for hotel and convention center projects and other qualified projects.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB04347I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **24–6** (pass) · upper
+- other — **146–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **24–6** (pass) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **125–23** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **146–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anchia — primary (person)
+- Bonnen, Greg — primary (person)
+- Moody — primary (person)
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Turner, Chris — primary (person)
+- Zerwas — primary (person)
+- Alvarado — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Blanco — cosponsor (person)
+- Bowers — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
+- Burrows — cosponsor (person)
+- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Fallon — cosponsor (person)
+- Flynn — cosponsor (person)
+- González, Jessica — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hinojosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Phil — cosponsor (person)
+- Krause — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio III — cosponsor (person)
+- Murr — cosponsor (person)
+- Ortega — cosponsor (person)
+- Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
+- Parker — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez — cosponsor (person)
+- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
+- Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
+- Sherman, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
+- Talarico — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-08** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-03-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-03-25** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-10** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-10** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-10** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-25** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-25** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-25** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-01** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-05-01** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-05-01** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-05-03** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-05-06** Placed on Major State Calendar
+- **2019-05-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-06** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-06** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2019-05-06** Amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2019-05-06** Amendment adopted as amended
+- **2019-05-06** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-06** Passed to engrossment as amended
+- **2019-05-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-07** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-07** Record vote
+- **2019-05-07** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-07** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-07** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-10** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-15** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-16** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-17** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-17** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-17** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-19** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-20** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-21** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-21** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-21** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-21** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-21** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-21** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-21** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-21** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-21** Record vote
+- **2019-05-21** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-21** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-05-21** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-05-22** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-23** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-24** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-25** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-26** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-14** Effective on 9/1/19 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61e6c374-c20a-42b0-9900-b658ddbadc65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+