By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 858
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the display of a sales tax permit or permit number by a
    1-2  person performing taxable landscaping services.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 151.2015 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 151.2015.  DISPLAY OF PERMIT OR NUMBER BY CERTAIN
    1-7  PERSONS.  A person performing taxable landscaping services shall,
    1-8  when performing those services:
    1-9              (1)  carry and display conspicuously:
   1-10                    (A)  a copy of the person's sales tax permit; and
   1-11                    (B)  the person's business telephone number; or
   1-12              (2)  display on each vehicle used in performing taxable
   1-13  landscaping services the permit number and business telephone
   1-14  number in letters and numbers at least two inches high and
   1-15  three-eighths inch wide.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.