By:  Hill (Senate Sponsor - Carona)                               H.B. No. 1088
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 2003; 
April 14, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 2003, reported favorably by 
the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 16, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to sales tax information provided by the comptroller to 
certain municipalities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 321.3022, Tax Code, is amended by 
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (i) to read as 
follows:
	(a)  The comptroller on request shall provide to a 
municipality that has adopted a tax under this chapter and that has 
a population of not more than 275,000 information relating to the 
amount of tax paid to the municipality under this chapter during the 
preceding or current calendar year by each person doing business in 
the municipality who annually remits to the comptroller state and 
local sales tax payments of more than $25,000 [$100,000].
	(i)  Notwithstanding Chapter 551, Government Code, the 
governing body of a municipality is not required to confer with one 
or more employees or a third party in an open meeting to receive 
information or question the employees or third party regarding the 
information received by the municipality under this section.
	SECTION 2.  Section 321.3022(f), Tax Code, is amended to 
read as follows:    
	(f)  Information received by a municipality under this 
section is confidential, is not open to public inspection, and may 
be used only for the purpose of economic forecasting, for internal 
auditing of a tax paid to the municipality under this chapter, or 
for the purpose described in Subsection (g).
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.



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