1-1     By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1269

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 1, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                             By:  Gallegos

 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 1269 on page 1, line 24, SECTION 2, after the word

 1-8     "effect" strike "September 1, 1997" and substitute "January 1,

 1-9     1998."

1-10                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-11                                   AN ACT

1-12     relating to the duties of the tax assessor-collector regarding

1-13     certain tax receipt records.

1-14           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-15           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 152.064, Tax Code, is

1-16     amended to read as follows:

1-17           (b)  The tax assessor-collector of each county shall:

1-18                 (1)  issue a receipt to the person paying a tax imposed

1-19     by this chapter; and

1-20                 (2)  send a copy of the receipt to the comptroller

1-21     according to the instructions of the comptroller[; and]

1-22                 [(3)  retain one copy of the receipt as a permanent

1-23     record of the transaction].

1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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