1-1     By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 329
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1999; February 2, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 29, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                              By:  Haywood
 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 329, SECTION 6, Subsection (a), by deleting "1999"
 1-8     and inserting "2001" in its place.
 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-10                                   AN ACT
1-11     relating to the date on which certain tax payments are due.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  The following provisions of the Tax Code are
1-14     repealed:
1-15                 (1)  Subsection (e), Section 153.118;
1-16                 (2)  Subsection (e), Section 153.221;
1-17                 (3)  Section 201.2015; and
1-18                 (4)  Section 202.1515.
1-19           SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 201.203, Tax Code, is
1-20     amended to read as follows:
1-21           (b)  If the report the producer is required to file shows
1-22     additional tax due, the producer must pay the additional tax when
1-23     he files the report. [Notwithstanding any other provision of this
1-24     code, if the producer fails to remit a reasonable estimate of the
1-25     tax due in accordance with Section 201.2015 of this chapter, a
1-26     penalty of 10 percent of the delinquent required reasonable
1-27     estimate will be forfeited and due along with any additional tax
1-28     due with the report specified in this section.]
1-29           SECTION 3.  Subsection (b), Section 201.2035, Tax Code, is
1-30     amended to read as follows:
1-31           (b)  If the report the first purchaser is required to file
1-32     shows any additional tax due, the first purchaser must pay the tax
1-33     when he files the report.  [Notwithstanding any other provision of
1-34     this code, if the purchaser fails to remit a reasonable estimate of
1-35     the tax due in accordance with Section 201.2015 of this chapter, a
1-36     penalty of 10 percent of the delinquent required reasonable
1-37     estimate will be forfeited and due along with any additional tax
1-38     due with the report specified in this section.]
1-39           SECTION 4.  Subsection (b), Section 202.201, Tax Code, is
1-40     amended to read as follows:
1-41           (b)  If the report the producer is required to file shows
1-42     additional tax due, the producer must pay the additional tax when
1-43     he files the report. [Notwithstanding any other provision of this
1-44     code, if the producer fails to remit a reasonable estimate of the
1-45     tax due in accordance with Section 202.1515 of this chapter, a
1-46     penalty of 10 percent of the delinquent required reasonable
1-47     estimate will be forfeited and due along with any additional tax
1-48     due with the report specified in this section.]
1-49           SECTION 5.  Subsection (b), Section 202.202, Tax Code, is
1-50     amended to read as follows:
1-51           (b)  If the report the first purchaser is required to file
1-52     shows additional tax due, the first purchaser must pay the
1-53     additional tax when he files the report.  [Notwithstanding any
1-54     other provision of this code, if the first purchaser fails to remit
1-55     a reasonable estimate of the tax due in accordance with Section
1-56     202.1515 of this chapter, a penalty of 10 percent of the delinquent
1-57     required reasonable estimate will be forfeited and due along with
1-58     any additional tax due with the report specified in this section.]
1-59           SECTION 6.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-60           (b)  The change in law made by this Act does not affect taxes
1-61     imposed before the effective date of this Act, and the law in
1-62     effect before that date is continued in effect for purposes of the
1-63     liability for and collection of those taxes.
 2-1           SECTION 7.  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.
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