Bill Text: TX HB2730 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to sales and use tax imposed by boards of certain municipal transit departments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB2730 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2730-Introduced.html
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By: Raymond | H.B. No. 2730 |
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relating to sales and use tax imposed by boards of certain municipal | ||
transit departments. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 453.402, Transportation Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) This section does not apply to a transit department in a | ||
municipality with a population of less than 300,000 if the voters of | ||
the transit department approve in a referendum election a sales and | ||
use tax rate that exceeds two percent or an increase to a rate that | ||
results in a rate that exceeds two percent. | ||
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, 2013. |