By West                                          H.B. No. 758

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 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.