By Hightower H.B. No. 2455 74R7295 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to application of the sales and use tax to firewood. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 151.3175 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 151.3175. FIREWOOD. Firewood is exempted from the 1-7 taxes imposed by this chapter. 1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect October 1, 1995, and 1-9 applies to taxes due on or after that date. Taxes due before that 1-10 date are governed by the law in effect when the taxes became due, 1-11 and that law is continued in effect for the collection of taxes due 1-12 and for civil and criminal enforcement of the liability for those 1-13 taxes. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.