SRC-PNG S.B. 843 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research CenterS.B. 843 By: Carona Intergovernmental Relations 6/23/1999 Enrolled DIGEST Currently, under Texas law, municipalities with a population under 50,000 may receive sales tax information from the comptroller of public accounts regarding businesses that remit more than $100,000 in local sales tax payments. This bill broadens which municipalities have the authority to receive this sales tax information from the comptroller of public accounts, to include those municipalities with a population of under 275,000. PURPOSE As enrolled, S.B. 843 broadens which municipalities have authority to receive sales tax information from the comptroller of public accounts. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 321.3022(a), Tax Code, to require the comptroller of public accounts (comptroller), on request, to provide to a municipality that has adopted a tax under this chapter and that has a population of not more than 275,000, rather than less than 50,000, information relating to the amount of tax paid to the municipality under this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by each person doing business in the municipality who annually remits to the comptroller state and local sales tax payments of more than $100,000. SECTION 2. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.