1-1 By: Place (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 1211
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 29, 1993, reported favorably, as
1-5 amended, by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 29, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Armbrister
1-21 Amend HB 1211 as follows:
1-22 (1) On page 1, lines 43-44, strike "35 cents" and substitute
1-23 "30 cents."
1-24 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-25 AN ACT
1-26 relating to the tax rate of the Comanche County Hospital District.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Chapter 203, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
1-29 Regular Session, 1973, is amended by adding Section 15A to read as
1-30 follows:
1-31 Sec. 15A. (a) The board of directors may order an election
1-32 on the question of decreasing the district's maximum tax rate to 35
1-33 cents on each $100 of valuation on all taxable property in the
1-34 district. The board shall order an election on this question if
1-35 the board receives a petition requesting an election that is signed
1-36 by at least 50 of the registered voters in the district.
1-37 (b) The election shall be held not later than the 60th day
1-38 after the date on which the election is ordered. Section
1-39 41.001(a), Election Code, does not apply to an election ordered
1-40 under this section.
1-41 (c) The ballot for the election shall be printed to permit
1-42 voting for or against the proposition: "The levy of annual taxes
1-43 by the district for hospital purposes at a rate not to exceed 35
1-44 cents on the $100 valuation of all taxable property in the
1-45 district." The election shall be held in accordance with the
1-46 applicable provisions of the Election Code.
1-47 (d) The board shall meet and canvass the election returns.
1-48 If a majority of the votes favor the proposition, the board may
1-49 levy taxes as authorized by the proposition. If a majority of the
1-50 votes do not favor the proposition, another election on the
1-51 question of decreasing the district's maximum tax rate may not be
1-52 held before the first anniversary of the most recent election at
1-53 which voters disapproved the proposition.
1-54 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-55 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-56 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-57 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-58 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-59 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-60 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-61 * * * * *
1-62 Austin,
1-63 Texas
1-64 April 29, 1993
1-65 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-66 President of the Senate
1-67 Sir:
1-68 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
2-1 referred H.B. No. 1211, have had the same under consideration, and
2-2 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
2-3 recommendation that it do pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-4 Armbrister,
2-5 Chairman
2-6 * * * * *
2-7 WITNESSES
2-8 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1211.