1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 843
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1999; March 4, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; March 29, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 29, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive
 1-9     sales tax information.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 321.3022, Tax Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  The comptroller on request shall provide to a
1-14     municipality that has adopted a tax under this chapter and that has
1-15     a population of not more than 100,000 [less than 50,000]
1-16     information relating to the amount of tax paid to the municipality
1-17     under this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by
1-18     each person doing business in the municipality who annually remits
1-19     to the comptroller state and local sales tax payments of more than
1-20     $100,000.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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