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. 1-30 * * * * *