By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 794
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the effective date of a county sales and use tax for
    1-2  the purpose of financing the operation of a crime control and
    1-3  prevention district.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 323.102, Tax Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 323.102.  Effective Dates:  New Tax, Tax Repeal<,
    1-8  Boundary Change>.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), a <A>
    1-9  tax imposed under this chapter takes effect on the October 1st
   1-10  after the expiration of the first complete calendar quarter
   1-11  occurring after the date on which the comptroller receives a notice
   1-12  of the action as required by Section 323.405(b).
   1-13        (b)  The repeal of a tax abolished under this chapter takes
   1-14  effect on the October 1st after the expiration of the first
   1-15  complete calendar quarter occurring after the date on which the
   1-16  comptroller receives a notice of the action as required by Section
   1-17  323.405(b).
   1-18        (c)  A tax imposed under Section 323.105 takes effect on the
   1-19  first day of the first calendar quarter after the expiration of the
   1-20  first complete calendar quarter occurring after the date on which
   1-21  the comptroller receives a notice of the action as required by
   1-22  Section 323.405(b).
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.