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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1269 passed the Senate on

         April 10, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1269 passed the House on

         May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor