AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive
 1-2     sales tax information.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 321.3022, Tax Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The comptroller on request shall provide to a
 1-7     municipality that has adopted a tax under this chapter and that has
 1-8     a population of not more than 275,000 [less than 50,000]
 1-9     information relating to the amount of tax paid to the municipality
1-10     under this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by
1-11     each person doing business in the municipality who annually remits
1-12     to the comptroller state and local sales tax payments of more than
1-13     $100,000.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 843 passed the Senate on
         March 31, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 17, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 843 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 148,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor