HB 2370 Texas House · 89th Legislature (2025)

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use hotel occupancy tax revenue for certain venue projects.

HB 2370 allows certain Texas municipalities (with 70,000-180,000 residents in counties bordering Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico) to use hotel occupancy tax revenue specifically for convention centers built before January 1, 2023. The law permits these cities to impose the tax only for financing such pre-2023 convention centers, with the tax authority expiring on the earlier of when the project debt is repaid or January 1, 2054. This bill amends the Local Government Code to clarify and limit the use of hotel tax revenue for these specific venue projects in designated border communities. The law takes effect September 1, 2025.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 14, 2025 Last action May 21, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced → Engrossed · 4 edits · May 14, 2025

MODERATE

This bill was reformatted from its original introduced version to an engrossed version, with significant changes to the bill's header information, sponsor attribution, and formatting. The core legislative content regarding hotel occupancy tax authority for venue projects remains substantively unchanged, though the text has been reorganized and some formatting inconsistencies were corrected.

Scope change

The bill's substantive scope regarding which municipalities can use hotel occupancy tax revenue for venue projects remains the same, but the formatting and presentation of the bill text have been significantly altered.

TECHNICAL

Bill header was updated from 'AALopez of Cameron' to include additional sponsors (Muñoz, Guillen, Raymond, Lujan) and changed the bill number format from 'A2370' to '89(R) HB 2370'.

Added a statement about digital content accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1) and a code reference (89R25702 CJD-D) that were not present in the original version.

Reformatted the bill text to remove inconsistent line breaks, spacing issues, and formatting artifacts from the original version, making the text more readable and properly structured.

Removed formatting artifacts and inconsistent spacing that appeared in the original introduced version, particularly around section headers and subsection numbering.

Floor votes · House May 13, 2025

How they voted

97–36

Passed · 12 other

Total votes 145

May 13, 2025

D Democratic58

53 Yea 2 Nay 3

91% Yea

R Republican87

44 Yea 34 Nay 9

50% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

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Key actions

Committee

May 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to Economic Development

upper

May 21, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

upper

May 14, 2025

Introduced

Received from the House

upper

May 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

lower

May 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed to engrossment

lower

May 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report sent to Calendars

lower

May 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report distributed

lower

May 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported favorably as substituted

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Left pending in committee

lower

Apr 14, 2025

Lower · Passed

Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

Referred to Ways & Means

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

lower

5 primary · 0 co-sponsors