1-1  By:  Wentworth                                         S.B. No. 858
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1995; March 2, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 28, 1995,
    1-4  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 858                   By:  Bivins
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the display of a sales tax permit or permit number by a
   1-10  person performing taxable landscaping services.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended
   1-13  by adding Section 151.2015 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 151.2015.  DISPLAY OF PERMIT OR NUMBER BY CERTAIN
   1-15  PERSONS.  A person performing taxable landscaping services shall,
   1-16  when performing those services:
   1-17              (1)  carry and display conspicuously:
   1-18                    (A)  a copy of the person's sales tax permit; and
   1-19                    (B)  the person's business telephone number; or
   1-20              (2)  display on each vehicle used in performing taxable
   1-21  landscaping services the permit number and business telephone
   1-22  number in letters and numbers at least two inches high and
   1-23  three-eighths inch wide.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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