By Williams H.B. No. 3403
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the powers of certain counties and rapid transit and
1-3 regional transportation authorities within those counties to adopt
1-4 or impose sales and use taxes.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 323.101, Tax
1-7 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) A county is qualified to adopt the tax only if no more
1-9 than 80 percent [part] of the county's total population [county] is
1-10 located in a rapid transit authority created under Chapter 451,
1-11 Transportation Code, or a regional transportation authority created
1-12 under Chapter 452 of that code.
1-13 (c) An authority created under Chapter 451 or 452,
1-14 Transportation Code, is prohibited from imposing the tax provided
1-15 for by those chapters in a county in which the county sales and use
1-16 tax provided for by this section is in effect or is scheduled to
1-17 take effect. For the purposes of this section, an authority is not
1-18 considered to be located in any county in which less [fewer] than
1-19 20 percent of the population of the county consists of [250 persons
1-20 are both] residents of the authority [and the county].
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.