By:  Armbrister                              S.B. No. 1269

         97S0653/1                           

                                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 September 1, 1997.

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.