By: Perez H.B. No. 4072
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the dissolution of the municipal sales and use tax for
street maintenance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 327.007(b), Tax Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(b) An election to reauthorize the tax is called and held in
the same manner as an election to adopt the tax under Section
327.006, except the ballot proposition shall be prepared to permit
voting for or against the proposition: "The reauthorization of the
local sales and use tax in (name of municipality) at the rate of
(insert appropriate rate) to continue providing revenue for
maintenance and repair of municipal streets for a period of. The tax
expires on the (insert fourth, eighth, or 10th) years anniversary
of the date of this election unless the imposition of the tax is
reauthorized."
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2019.