By Hawley                                       H.B. No. 1029

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to qualifying certain municipalities to impose the

 1-3     municipal sales and use tax.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 321.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding

 1-6     Subsection (h) to read as follows:

 1-7           (h)  For the purposes of Subsection (f), "territory" in a

 1-8     municipality having a population of less than 10,000, located in

 1-9     three counties, and that has territory located less than one mile

1-10     from the Gulf of Mexico does not include an area of the

1-11     municipality that:

1-12                 (1)  consists of all the territory of the municipality

1-13     in one of the counties; and

1-14                 (2)  has a population of less than 20 percent of the

1-15     population of the municipality.

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.