By: Bonnen (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 3345
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023;
  May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
  May 8, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 14,
  Nays 1; May 8, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the amount of the fee imposed on certain sexually
  oriented businesses that is allocated to the sexual assault program
  fund and the allocation of certain other revenue to that fund;
  increasing the amount of a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 102.052(a), Business & Commerce Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A fee is imposed on a sexually oriented business in an
  amount equal to $10 [$5] for each entry by each customer admitted to
  the business.
         SECTION 2.  Section 420.008(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  The fund consists of:
               (1)  fees and fines collected under:
                     (A)  Article 42A.653(a), Code of Criminal
  Procedure;
                     (B)  Section 508.189, Government Code; and
                     (C)  Subchapter B, Chapter 102, Business &
  Commerce Code, and deposited under Section 102.054 of that code;
  [and]
               (2)  administrative penalties collected under Section
  51.258, Education Code; and
               (3)  amounts allocated under Section 183.054, Tax Code.
         SECTION 3.  Section 183.023(b), Tax Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (b)  Except for the amounts allocated under Subsection (c) of
  this section or Subchapter C of this chapter, the comptroller shall
  deposit the revenue received under this section in the general
  revenue fund.
         SECTION 4.  Subchapter C, Chapter 183, Tax Code, is amended
  by adding Section 183.054 to read as follows:
         Sec. 183.054.  ALLOCATION OF CERTAIN REVENUE TO SEXUAL
  ASSAULT PROGRAM FUND.  The comptroller shall deposit an amount of
  money equal to one percent of the revenue received under
  Subchapters B and B-1 to the credit of the sexual assault program
  fund established under Section 420.008, Government Code.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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