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.