1-1  By:  Stiles (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 1660
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
    1-3  April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Finance; May 19, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 19, 1993,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Montford           x                               
   1-10        Turner             x                               
   1-11        Armbrister         x                               
   1-12        Barrientos         x                               
   1-13        Bivins             x                               
   1-14        Ellis              x                               
   1-15        Haley              x                               
   1-16        Moncrief           x                               
   1-17        Parker             x                               
   1-18        Ratliff            x                               
   1-19        Sims               x                               
   1-20        Truan              x                               
   1-21        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-22  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1660                  By:  Turner
   1-23                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-24                                AN ACT
   1-25  relating to sales and use tax exemptions for religious, charitable,
   1-26  educational, and public service organizations.
   1-27        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-28        SECTION 1.  Section 151.310(c), Tax Code, is amended to read
   1-29  as follows:
   1-30        (c)  An organization that qualifies for an exemption under
   1-31  Subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section, and each bona fide
   1-32  chapter of the organization, may hold two <one> tax-free sales or
   1-33  auctions during a calendar year and each <the> tax-free sale or
   1-34  auction may continue for one day only.  The sale of a taxable item
   1-35  by a qualified organization or chapter of the organization at a
   1-36  tax-free sale or auction is exempted from the sales tax imposed by
   1-37  Subchapter C of this chapter.  The storage, use or consumption of a
   1-38  taxable item acquired from a qualified organization or chapter of
   1-39  the organization at a tax-free sale or auction is exempted from the
   1-40  use tax imposed by Subchapter D of this chapter  until the item is
   1-41  resold or subsequently transferred.
   1-42        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-43  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-44  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-45  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-46  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-47  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-48  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-50                                                         Austin,
   1-51  Texas
   1-52                                                         May 19, 1993
   1-53  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-54  President of the Senate
   1-55  Sir:
   1-56  We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 1660,
   1-57  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   1-58  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
   1-59  pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
   1-60  pass and be printed.
   1-61                                                         Montford,
   1-62  Chairman
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   1-64                               WITNESSES
   1-65  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1660.