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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