82R2743 CJC-D
By: Solomons H.B. No. 654
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a report regarding the municipality or county of origin
of tax revenue collected by the comptroller.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 403.0142 to read as follows:
Sec. 403.0142. REPORT ON ORIGIN OF TAX REVENUE. (a) Before
each regular session of the legislature, the comptroller shall
report to the legislature and the governor on the amount of revenue
remitted to the comptroller in each municipality and county for
each tax collected by the comptroller. The report may be included
in any other report made by the comptroller.
(b) The comptroller shall use tax returns to determine the
amount of revenue remitted in each municipality and county for each
tax collected by the comptroller. If that information for a
particular tax is not available from tax returns, the comptroller
shall use available statistical data to determine those amounts or
may require taxpayers or other entities that remit taxes to the
comptroller to report to the comptroller additional information
necessary to make the report required by Subsection (a).
(c) The comptroller shall report the information under
Subsection (a) as an aggregate total for each tax without
disclosing individual tax payments or taxpayers.
(d) The comptroller shall publish the report required under
Subsection (a) on the comptroller's Internet website not later than
the 20th day after the date the report is provided to the
legislature and the governor.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.