Amend CSHB 4180 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 775.0751(c-1), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c-1) A district that otherwise would be precluded from adopting a sales and use tax under Subsection (c) may adopt a sales and use tax, change the rate of its sales and use tax, or abolish its sales and use tax at an election held as provided by Section 775.0752, if the board:
(1) excludes from the [election and the] applicability of any proposed sales and use tax any territory in the district where the sales and use tax is then at two percent; and
(2) not later than the 30th day after the date on which the board issues the election order, gives, for informational purposes, written or oral notice on the proposed imposition, increase, or abolition of the sales and use tax, including the reasons for the proposed change, to the commissioners court of each county in which the district is located.
SECTION ____. Section 775.0752, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) At an election described by Section 775.0751(c-1) to adopt the tax, the ballot shall be prepared to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The adoption of a local sales and use tax in (name of district) at a rate not to exceed (proposed tax rate) percent in any location in the district."
SECTION ____. The acts and proceedings of an emergency services district relating to an election described by Section 775.0751(c-1), Health and Safety Code, to impose a sales and use tax that was held November 3, 2015, and at which the ballot proposition used language from Section 775.0752, Health and Safety Code, and was approved by a majority of the voters voting on the proposition are validated as of the dates they occurred. The validation includes the preparation and wording of the ballot proposition, any action taken by the district in calling, holding, and canvassing the tax election, and any other action taken by the district before the effective date of this Act in connection with the imposition of the tax approved in the tax election. A district may take any further action or conduct any further proceeding necessary to complete the imposition of the tax approved at the tax election.