By Hill                                                H.B. No. 767
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive
 1-3     sales tax information.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 321.3022(a), Tax Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The comptroller on request shall provide to a
 1-8     municipality that has adopted a tax under this chapter and that has
 1-9     a population of not more than 100,000 [less than 50,000]
1-10     information relating to the amount of tax paid to the municipality
1-11     under this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by
1-12     each person doing business in the municipality who annually remits
1-13     to the comptroller state and local sales tax payments of more than
1-14     $100,000.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.
1-22                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-23           Amend House Bill No. 767 on page 1, line 9, by striking "not
1-24     more than 100,000" and substituting "not more than 275,000".
 2-1                                                                  McCall