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1		-	By: Anderson of Dallas, Alonzo H.B. No. 2853
2		-	(Senate Sponsor - West)
3		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015;
4		-	May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
5		-	May 14, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 14,
6		-	Nays 0; May 14, 2015, sent to printer.)
7		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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10		-	COMMITTEE VOTE
11		-	YeaNayAbsentPNV
12		-	NelsonX
13		-	HinojosaX
14		-	BettencourtX
15		-	EltifeX
16		-	HancockX
17		-	HuffmanX
18		-	KolkhorstX
19		-	NicholsX
20		-	SchwertnerX
21		-	SeligerX
22		-	Taylorof GalvestonX
23		-	UrestiX
24		-	WatsonX
25		-	WestX
26		-	WhitmireX
27		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
28	4		AN ACT
29	5		relating to the municipal sales and use tax for street maintenance.
30	6		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
31	7		SECTION 1. Sections 327.007(a) and (b), Tax Code, are
32	8		amended to read as follows:
33	9		(a) Unless imposition of the sales and use tax authorized by
34	10		this chapter is reauthorized as provided by this section, the tax
35	11		expires on:
36	12		(1) the fourth anniversary of the date the tax
37	13		originally took effect under Section 327.005;
38	14		(2) the first day of the first calendar quarter
39	15		occurring after the fourth anniversary of the date the tax was last
40	16		reauthorized under this section if, at that election, the voters
41	17		approved the imposition of the tax for a period that expires on that
42	18		anniversary; [or]
43	19		(2-a) if the tax is imposed in a municipality that is
44	20		intersected by two interstate highways, that has a population of
45	21		150,000 or more, and in which at least 66 percent of the voters
46	22		voting in each of the last two consecutive elections concerning the
47	23		adoption or reauthorization of the tax favored adoption or
48	24		reauthorization, and that tax has not expired as provided by
49	25		Subdivision (1) or (2) since the first of those two consecutive
50	26		elections, the last day of the first calendar quarter occurring
51	27		after the eighth anniversary of the date the tax was last
52	28		reauthorized under this section if, at that election, the voters
53	29		approved the imposition of the tax for a period that expires on that
54	30		anniversary instead of the period described by Subdivision (2); or
55	31		(3) if the tax is imposed in a general-law
56	32		municipality with a population of 10,000 or more surrounded
57	33		entirely by a municipality with a population of 1.3 million or more,
58	34		the last day of the first calendar quarter occurring after the 10th
59	35		anniversary of the date the tax was last reauthorized under this
60	36		section if, at that election, the voters approved the imposition of
61	37		the tax for a period that expires on that anniversary instead of the
62	38		period described by Subdivision (2).
63	39		(b) An election to reauthorize the tax is called and held in
64	40		the same manner as an election to adopt the tax under Section
65	41		327.006, except the ballot proposition shall be prepared to permit
66	42		voting for or against the proposition: "The reauthorization of the
67	43		local sales and use tax in (name of municipality) at the rate of
68	44		(insert appropriate rate) to continue providing revenue for
69	45		maintenance and repair of municipal streets. The tax expires on the
70	46		(insert fourth, eighth, or 10th) anniversary of the date of this
71	47		election unless the imposition of the tax is reauthorized."
72	48		SECTION 2. Section 327.008, Tax Code, is amended to read as
73	49		follows:
74	50		Sec. 327.008. USE OF TAX REVENUE. Revenue from the tax
75	51		imposed under this chapter may be used only to maintain and repair
76	52		municipal streets or sidewalks existing on the date of the election
77	53		to adopt the tax.
78	54		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
79	55		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
80	56		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
81	57		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
82	58		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	59	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	60	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	61	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2853 was passed by the House on May 5,
	62	+	2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	63	+	voting.
	64	+	______________________________
	65	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	66	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2853 was passed by the Senate on May
	67	+	20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
	68	+	______________________________
	69	+	Secretary of the Senate
	70	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	71	+	Date
	72	+	_____________________
	73	+	Governor