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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 — **246** (pass) · upper
- other — **1460** (fail) · upper
- passage — **246** (pass) · upper
- other — **00** (fail) · upper
- passage — **12523** (pass) · lower
- passage — **1460** (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).