By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1256
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the provision of certain tax information to a crime
 1-2     control and prevention district.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 323, Tax Code, is amended
 1-5     by adding Section 323.3022 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 323.3022.  CRIME CONTROL DISTRICT TAX INFORMATION.
 1-7     (a)  The comptroller on request shall provide to a crime control
 1-8     and prevention district that has adopted a tax under this chapter
 1-9     information relating to the amount of tax paid to the district
1-10     under this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by
1-11     each person doing business in the area of the district who annually
1-12     remits to the comptroller state and local sales tax payments of
1-13     more $100,000.
1-14           (b)  A request for information under this section must be
1-15     made in writing by the district's chief administrative officer.
1-16           (c)  Information received by a district under this section is
1-17     confidential, is not open to public inspection, and may be used
1-18     only for the purpose of economic forecasting.
1-19           (d)  The comptroller may set and collect from a district
1-20     reasonable fees to cover the expense of compiling and providing
1-21     information under this section.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.