By Stiles H.B. No. 1660 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to sales and use tax exemptions for religious, charitable, 1-3 educational, and public service organizations. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 151.310, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) A charitable organization that qualifies for an 1-8 exemption under Subsection (a)(2) may hold fund-raising auctions at 1-9 any time during a calendar year. Provided, however, that such 1-10 organization's bona fide chapters may not hold more than one 1-11 auction per month. The sale of a taxable item at such auction is 1-12 exempted from the sales tax imposed by Subchapter C. The storage, 1-13 use, or consumption of a taxable item acquired at such auction is 1-14 exempted from the use tax imposed by Subchapter D until the item is 1-15 resold or subsequently transferred. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.