By Chavez                                             H.B. No. 2882
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the distribution of certain proceeds from the sales tax
 1-3     to the criminal justice planning fund for gang prevention.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter M, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 151.802 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 151.802.  CERTAIN PROCEEDS TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLANNING
 1-8     FUND.  (a)  The proceeds from the collection of the taxes imposed
 1-9     by this  chapter on the sale, storage, or use of papers designed
1-10     for the rolling of cigarettes shall be credited to the criminal
1-11     justice planning fund for grants by the criminal justice division
1-12     of the governor's office to units of local government to prevent
1-13     the formation of criminal street gangs and other criminal
1-14     combinations.
1-15           (b)  The comptroller shall determine the amount to be
1-16     deposited under Subsection (a) according to available statistical
1-17     data indicating the estimated or actual total receipts in this
1-18     state from taxable sales of papers designed for the rolling of
1-19     cigarettes.  If satisfactory data are not available, the
1-20     comptroller may require taxpayers who make taxable sales or uses of
1-21     papers designed for the rolling of cigarettes to report to the
1-22     comptroller as necessary to make the allocation required by
1-23     Subsection (a).
1-24           SECTION 2.  Section 151.801(a), Tax Code, is amended to read
 2-1     as follows:
 2-2           (a)  Except for the amounts allocated under Subsections (b)
 2-3     and (c) and Section 151.802, all proceeds from the collection of
 2-4     the taxes imposed by this chapter shall be deposited to the credit
 2-5     of the general revenue fund.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 2-7     applies to the proceeds from the collection of the taxes imposed by
 2-8     Chapter 151, Tax Code, on or after that date.
 2-9           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.