By: Nixon S.B. No. 1805 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the adoption or increase of local sales and use taxes 1-2 by a municipality or county for which previous elections adopting 1-3 such taxes were invalid. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 321.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-7 (i) A municipality for which the adoption or increase of a 1-8 sales and use tax approved by the voters in an election held after 1-9 May 1, 1995, and before December 31, 1995, is invalid because the 1-10 election combined into a single proposition proposal for adopting 1-11 an economic development sales and use tax under Section 4B, 1-12 Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas 1-13 Civil Statutes), and an additional sales and use tax under 1-14 Subsection (b) may adopt or increase the sales and use tax 1-15 previously approved by the voters by ordinance or resolution of the 1-16 governing body of the municipality. If the governing body of the 1-17 municipality adopts or increases the sales and use tax under this 1-18 subsection, the municipal secretary shall send to the comptroller 1-19 by certified or registered mail a certified copy of the ordinance 1-20 or resolution. The tax takes effect on the first day of the month 1-21 following the expiration of the calendar quarter occurring after 1-22 the date on which the comptroller receives the ordinance or 1-23 resolution. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.