1-1     By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1256
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 12, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the provision of certain tax information to a crime
 1-9     control and prevention district.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 323, Tax Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Section 323.3022 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 323.3022.  CRIME CONTROL DISTRICT TAX INFORMATION.
1-14     (a)  The comptroller on request shall provide to a crime control
1-15     and prevention district that has adopted a tax under this chapter
1-16     information relating to the amount of tax paid to the district
1-17     under this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by
1-18     each person doing business in the area of the district who annually
1-19     remits to the comptroller state and local sales tax payments of
1-20     more than $100,000.
1-21           (b)  A request for information under this section must be
1-22     made in writing by the district's chief administrative officer.
1-23           (c)  Information received by a district under this section is
1-24     confidential, is not open to public inspection, and may be used
1-25     only for the purpose of economic forecasting.
1-26           (d)  The comptroller may set and collect from a district
1-27     reasonable fees to cover the expense of compiling and providing
1-28     information under this section.
1-29           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-30           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-31     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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