By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1511
         99S0717/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the powers of certain counties and rapid transit and
 1-2     regional transportation authorities within those counties to adopt
 1-3     or impose sales and use taxes.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 323.101, Tax
 1-6     Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  A county is qualified to adopt the tax only if no more
 1-8     than 80 percent [part] of the county's total population [county] is
 1-9     located in a rapid transit authority created under Chapter 451,
1-10     Transportation Code, or a regional transportation authority created
1-11     under Chapter 452 of that code.
1-12           (c)  An authority created under Chapter 451 or 452,
1-13     Transportation Code, is prohibited from imposing the tax provided
1-14     for by those chapters in a county in which the county sales and use
1-15     tax provided for by this section is in effect or is scheduled to
1-16     take effect.  For the purposes of this section, an authority is not
1-17     considered to be located in any county in which less [fewer] than
1-18     20 percent of the population of the county consists of [250 persons
1-19     are both] residents of the authority [and the county].
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  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
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.