By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) H.B. No. 4739
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2025;
  May 1, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
  Commerce; May 15, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 15, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the elimination of the requirement that a portion of
  certain retail charge agreement delinquency fees be remitted to the
  comptroller.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 345.157(d), Finance Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act does not
  affect tax liability accruing before the effective date of this
  Act.  That liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been
  enacted, and the former law is continued in effect for the
  collection of taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of
  the liability for those taxes.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2026.
 
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