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1		-	S.B. No. 1727
	1	+	By: Birdwell S.B. No. 1727
	2	+	(Cook)
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	5	+	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
4	6		AN ACT
5	7		relating to the procedure for an election to adopt a sales and use
6	8		tax or to change the tax rate in an emergency services district.
7	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	10		SECTION 1. Section 775.0751(c-1), Health and Safety Code,
9	11		is amended to read as follows:
10	12		(c-1) A district that otherwise would be precluded from
11	13		adopting a sales and use tax under Subsection (c) may adopt a sales
12	14		and use tax, change the rate of its sales and use tax, or abolish its
13	15		sales and use tax at an election held as provided by Section
14	16		775.0752, if the board:
15	17		(1) excludes from the [election and the] applicability
16	18		of any proposed sales and use tax any territory in the district
17	19		where the sales and use tax is then at two percent; and
18	20		(2) not later than the 30th day after the date on which
19	21		the board issues the election order, gives, for informational
20	22		purposes, written or oral notice on the proposed imposition,
21	23		increase, or abolition of the sales and use tax, including the
22	24		reasons for the proposed change, to the commissioners court of each
23	25		county in which the district is located.
24	26		SECTION 2. Section 775.0752, Health and Safety Code, is
25	27		amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
26	28		(f) At an election described by Section 775.0751(c-1) to
27	29		adopt the tax, the ballot shall be prepared to permit voting for or
28	30		against the proposition: "The adoption of a local sales and use tax
29	31		in (name of district) at a rate not to exceed (proposed tax rate)
30	32		percent in any location in the district."
31	33		SECTION 3. The acts and proceedings of an emergency
32	34		services district relating to an election described by Section
33	35		775.0751(c-1), Health and Safety Code, to impose a sales and use tax
34	36		that was held November 3, 2015, and at which the ballot proposition
35	37		used language from Section 775.0752, Health and Safety Code, and
36	38		was approved by a majority of the voters voting on the proposition
37	39		are validated as of the dates they occurred. The validation
38	40		includes the preparation and wording of the ballot proposition, any
39	41		action taken by the district in calling, holding, and canvassing
40	42		the tax election, and any other action taken by the district before
41	43		the effective date of this Act in connection with the imposition of
42	44		the tax approved in the tax election. A district may take any
43	45		further action or conduct any further proceeding necessary to
44	46		complete the imposition of the tax approved at the tax election.
45	47		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
46	48		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
47	49		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
48	50		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
49	51		Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
50		-	______________________________ ______________________________
51		-	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
52		-	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1727 passed the Senate on
53		-	May 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
54		-	______________________________
55		-	Secretary of the Senate
56		-	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1727 passed the House on
57		-	May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 2, two
58		-	present not voting.
59		-	______________________________
60		-	Chief Clerk of the House
61		-	Approved:
62		-	______________________________
63		-	Date
64		-	______________________________
65		-	Governor