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. 1-35 * * * * *