By Kuempel H.B. No. 1692
76R3643 DAK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the allocation of certain sales tax revenue to the
1-3 Parks and Wildlife Department.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 151.801(c), Tax Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (c) The proceeds from the collection of the taxes imposed by
1-8 this chapter on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods shall
1-9 be [deposited as follows:]
1-10 [(1) For the period beginning September 1, 1993, and
1-11 ending August 31, 1995, an amount equal to 50 cents per 1,000
1-12 cigarettes shall be deposited to the credit of the general revenue
1-13 fund, state parks account, and an amount equal to 50 cents per
1-14 1,000 cigarettes shall be deposited to the credit of the general
1-15 revenue fund, Texas recreation and parks account, and the balance
1-16 shall be retained in the general revenue fund.]
1-17 [(2) Beginning September 1, 1995, the taxes collected
1-18 shall be] credited to the Parks and Wildlife Department and
1-19 deposited as specified in the Parks and Wildlife Code. [The
1-20 comptroller shall not credit in excess of $32 million in sporting
1-21 goods tax revenue annually to the Parks and Wildlife Department.]
1-22 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 (b) The repeal of the requirement in Section 151.801(c)(2),
1-24 Tax Code, by this Act is effective for the state fiscal year
2-1 beginning September 1, 1999, and subsequent fiscal years, and the
2-2 $32 million limit does not apply to those years.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.