By Hawley H.B. No. 1029 75R5004 DAK-D 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.