By Berlanga, Luna, Hunter of Nueces                   H.B. No. 3183
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the dates on which an election to approve the adoption
    1-3  of a municipal sales tax may be held.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 321.403, Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 321.403.  Time of Election.  (a)  An election under this
    1-8  chapter to adopt the tax authorized under Section 321.101(a) must
    1-9  be held on the first succeeding uniform election date for which
   1-10  sufficient time elapses for the holding of an election; provided
   1-11  that, if the regular election for officers of a municipality is
   1-12  scheduled to be conducted on a date other than such uniform
   1-13  election date, the tax election may be held on the same date as
   1-14  such regular election as a substitute uniform election date.
   1-15        (b)  An election on the approval of the additional sales and
   1-16  use tax must be held on the next succeeding uniform election date
   1-17  not less than 45 <30> days after the passage of the ordinance
   1-18  calling the election; provided that, if the regular election for
   1-19  officers of a municipality is scheduled to be conducted on a date
   1-20  other than such uniform election date, the tax election may be held
   1-21  on the same date as such regular election as a substitute uniform
   1-22  election date.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.