1-1 By: West (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 758
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;
1-3 April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the sales and use tax rate of certain hospital
1-9 districts.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 285.061(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) A hospital district that is authorized to impose ad
1-14 valorem taxes may adopt a sales and use tax, change the rate of its
1-15 sales and use tax, or abolish its sales and use tax at an election
1-16 held as provided by this subchapter. Subject to the limitations
1-17 provided by Subsections (c) and (d), the district may impose the
1-18 tax in increments of one-eighth of one percent, with a minimum tax
1-19 of one-eighth of one percent and a maximum tax of two percent [at a
1-20 rate of one-eighth percent, one-fourth percent, one-half percent,
1-21 one percent, one and one-half percent, or two percent].
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28 passage, and it is so enacted.
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