---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to municipal and county hotel occupancy taxes."
description: "Relating to municipal and county hotel occupancy taxes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "88"
identifier: "SB 1420"
citation: "Texas SB 1420 (88)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (V2608)", "CONVENTIONS & CONVENTION CENTERS (S0348)", "City Government--Finance (I0062)", "County Government--Finance (I0097)", "Taxation--Hotel", "Motel Occupancy (I0806)", "Tourism (I0817)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Birdwell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 54
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/905540cd-7b5d-474e-b1a8-c746e78608a1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01400_SB01499/SB 1420.xml"
source_hash: "00f5f2be9e2284e777545ad5c080726539c131c7e0872013a2b56050fb3128ee"
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 SB 1420 (88) — Relating to municipal and county hotel occupancy taxes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01420I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01420E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01420H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01420S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB01420F.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **29–2** (pass) · upper
- passage — **106–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Birdwell — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-03-01** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing, introduction`
- **2023-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-16** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2023-03-22** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-22** Testimony taken in committee
- **2023-03-22** Left pending in committee
- **2023-03-29** Considered in public hearing
- **2023-03-29** Vote taken in committee
- **2023-04-04** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-04** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2023-04-12** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2023-04-12** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
- **2023-04-12** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment `reading-2`
- **2023-04-12** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-04-12** Three day rule suspended
- **2023-04-12** Record vote
- **2023-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-12** Record vote
- **2023-04-12** Reported engrossed
- **2023-04-12** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2023-04-14** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-04-14** Referred to Ways & Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Considered in formal meeting
- **2023-05-04** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2023-05-04** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-06** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2023-05-06** Committee report distributed
- **2023-05-06** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
- **2023-05-10** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
- **2023-05-12** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
- **2023-05-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-12** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2023-05-12** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-12** Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-12** Record vote
- **2023-05-12** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
- **2023-05-15** House passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-17** House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- **2023-05-17** Read
- **2023-05-17** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)
- **2023-05-17** Record vote
- **2023-05-17** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-18** Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported
- **2023-05-18** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-19** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2023-05-19** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-02** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-02** Effective immediately `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/905540cd-7b5d-474e-b1a8-c746e78608a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).