1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the sales and use tax rate of certain hospital
1-3 districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 285.061(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A hospital district that is authorized to impose ad
1-8 valorem taxes may adopt a sales and use tax, change the rate of its
1-9 sales and use tax, or abolish its sales and use tax at an election
1-10 held as provided by this subchapter. Subject to the limitations
1-11 provided by Subsections (c) and (d), the district may impose the
1-12 tax in increments of one-eighth of one percent, with a minimum tax
1-13 of one-eighth of one percent and a maximum tax of two percent [at a
1-14 rate of one-eighth percent, one-fourth percent, one-half percent,
1-15 one percent, one and one-half percent, or two percent].
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 758 was passed by the House on April
3, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 758 was passed by the Senate on May 8
1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor