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Senate Bill 1727 |
Senate Author: Birdwell |
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Effective: 6-9-17 |
House Sponsor: Cook |
Senate Bill 1727 amends the Health and Safety Code to remove as a condition that must be met for an emergency services district otherwise precluded from adopting a sales and use tax due to a certain limitation on the combined sales and use tax rate to be authorized to adopt a sales and use tax, change the rate of its sales and use tax, or abolish its sales and use tax at a sales and use tax election the condition consisting of the board of emergency services commissioners excluding from the election any territory in the district where the sales and use tax is then at two percent. The bill requires the ballot at such an election held to adopt a sales and use tax to be prepared to permit voting for or against the proposition and sets out the proposition language.