By Chavez H.B. No. 2882 76R4294 DAK-D 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.