By: Bivins S.B. No. 1293
73R6222 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain tax-free purchases of diesel fuel.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 153.205(b), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (b) A person may not make a tax-free purchase of diesel fuel
1-7 under this section using a signed statement:
1-8 (1) for the purchase of more than 3,000 <2,000>
1-9 gallons of diesel fuel in a single transaction; or
1-10 (2) in a calendar month in which the person has
1-11 previously purchased more than 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel from
1-12 all sources.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.