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79R9956 DRH-D

By:  Flynn                                                        H.B. No. 3022



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the sales tax information the comptroller must provide 
certain counties on request.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 323, Tax Code, is amended 
by adding Section 323.3022 to read as follows:
	Sec. 323.3022.  TAX INFORMATION.  (a)  The comptroller on 
request shall provide to a county 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 county under 
this chapter during the preceding or current calendar year by each 
person doing business in the county who annually remits to the 
comptroller state and local sales tax payments of more than 
$25,000.
	(b)  A request for information under this section must be 
made in writing by the county judge.
	(c)  Information received by a county under this section is 
confidential, is not open to public inspection, and may be used only 
for the purpose of economic forecasting or for internal auditing of 
a tax paid to the county under this chapter.
	(d)  The comptroller may set and collect from a county 
reasonable fees to cover the expense of compiling and providing 
information under this section.
	(e)  Notwithstanding Chapter 551, Government Code, the 
commissioners court 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 county under this section.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.