By Berlanga, Luna, Hunter of Nueces                   H.B. No. 3183
       74R6090 DRH-D
                                 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 same day as the first regular election for officers
   1-10  of the municipality that occurs 45 or more days after the date of
   1-11  the passage of the ordinance calling the tax <succeeding uniform
   1-12  election date for which sufficient time elapses for the holding of
   1-13  an> election.
   1-14        (b)  An election on the approval of the additional sales and
   1-15  use tax must be held on the same day as the next regular election
   1-16  for officers of the municipality that occurs 45 or more <succeeding
   1-17  uniform election date not less than 30> days after the date of the
   1-18  passage of the ordinance calling the tax election.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.