1-1 By: Nixon S.B. No. 1805 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 8, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 8, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Madla 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1805 on page 1, line 21 by striking the word "tax" 1-8 between the words "development" and "sales" 1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-10 AN ACT 1-11 relating to the adoption or increase of local sales and use taxes 1-12 by a municipality or county for which previous elections adopting 1-13 such taxes were invalid. 1-14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-15 SECTION 1. Section 321.101, Tax Code, is amended by adding 1-16 Subsection (i) to read as follows: 1-17 (i) A municipality for which the adoption or increase of a 1-18 sales and use tax approved by the voters in an election held after 1-19 May 1, 1995, and before December 31, 1995, is invalid because the 1-20 election combined into a single proposition proposal for adopting 1-21 an economic development tax sales and use tax under Section 4B, 1-22 Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas 1-23 Civil Statutes), and an additional sales and use tax under 1-24 Subsection (b) may adopt or increase the sales and use tax 1-25 previously approved by the voters by ordinance or resolution of the 1-26 governing body of the municipality. If the governing body of the 1-27 municipality adopts or increases the sales and use tax under this 1-28 subsection, the municipal secretary shall send to the comptroller 1-29 by certified or registered mail a certified copy of the ordinance 1-30 or resolution. The tax takes effect on the first day of the month 1-31 following the expiration of the calendar quarter occurring after 1-32 the date on which the comptroller receives the ordinance or 1-33 resolution. 1-34 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-40 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-41 * * * * *