By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1269
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the duties of the tax assessor-collector regarding
1-2 certain tax receipt records.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 152.064, Tax Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The tax assessor-collector of each county shall:
1-7 (1) issue a receipt to the person paying a tax imposed
1-8 by this chapter; and
1-9 (2) send a copy of the receipt to the comptroller
1-10 according to the instructions of the comptroller[; and]
1-11 [(3) retain one copy of the receipt as a permanent
1-12 record of the transaction].
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.