Bill Text: TX HB3366 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the application of the sales and use tax to certain property and services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-20 - Meeting cancelled [HB3366 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3366-Introduced.html

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85R12999 CJC-F
By: Bohac H.B. No. 3366

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the application of the sales and use tax to certain
property and services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 151.0028, Tax Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(b) "Amusement services" includes:
(1) membership in a private club or organization that
provides entertainment, recreational, sports, dining, or social
facilities to its members; and
(2) the purchase of an admission through the use of a
coin-operated machine.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), "amusement services"
does not include services provided through coin-operated machines
that are operated by the consumer.
SECTION 2. Section 151.0045, Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 151.0045. "PERSONAL SERVICES". "Personal services"
means those personal services listed as personal services under
Group 721, Major Group 72 of the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972, and includes massage parlors, escort services, and
Turkish baths under Group 729 of said manual but does not include
any other services listed under Group 729 unless otherwise covered
under this chapter [Act], prepared by the statistical policy
division of the office on management and budget, office of the
president of the United States. The term does not include services
provided through coin-operated machines that are operated by the
consumer.
SECTION 3. Section 151.006, Tax Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (e) to read
as follows:
(a) "Sale for resale" means a sale of:
(1) tangible personal property or a taxable service to
a purchaser who acquires the property or service for the purpose of
reselling it [with or] as a taxable item as defined by Section
151.010 in the United States of America or a possession or territory
of the United States of America or in the United Mexican States in
the normal course of business in the form or condition in which it
is acquired or as an attachment to or integral part of other
tangible personal property or taxable service;
(2) tangible personal property to a purchaser for the
sole purpose of the purchaser's leasing or renting it in the United
States of America or a possession or territory of the United States
of America or in the United Mexican States in the normal course of
business to another person, but not if incidental to the leasing or
renting of real estate;
(3) tangible personal property to a purchaser who
acquires the property for the purpose of transferring it in the
United States of America or a possession or territory of the United
States of America or in the United Mexican States as an integral
part of a taxable service;
(4) a taxable service performed on tangible personal
property that is held for sale by the purchaser of the taxable
service; or
(5) except as provided by Subsection (c), tangible
personal property to a purchaser who acquires the property for the
purpose of transferring it as an integral part of performing a
contract, or a subcontract of a contract, with an entity or
organization exempted from the taxes imposed by this chapter under
Section 151.309 or 151.310 [the federal government] only if the
purchaser:
(A) allocates and bills to the contract the cost
of the property as a direct or indirect cost; and
(B) transfers title to the property to the exempt
entity or organization [federal government] under the contract and
applicable [federal] acquisition regulations.
(c) A sale for resale does not include the sale of tangible
personal property or a taxable service to a purchaser who acquires
the property or service for the purpose of performing a contract, or
a subcontract of a contract, with an entity or organization
exempted from the taxes imposed by this chapter under Section
151.309 or 151.310 [service that is not taxed under this chapter],
regardless of whether title transfers to the service provider's
customer, unless the tangible personal property or taxable service
is purchased for the purpose of reselling it to the United States in
a contract, or a subcontract of a contract, with any branch of the
Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department
of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Central
Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, or National Reconnaissance Office
to the extent allocated and billed to the contract with the federal
government.
(e) A sale for resale does not include the sale of tangible
personal property that will be used, consumed, or expended in, or
incorporated into, an oil or gas well by a purchaser who acquires
the property to perform an oil well service taxable under Chapter
191.
SECTION 4. Section 151.338, Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 151.338. ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION SERVICES. (a)
Subject to Subsection (b), labor to [The services involved in the]
repair, remodel, maintain, or restore [remodeling, maintenance, or
restoration of] tangible personal property is exempted from the
taxes imposed by [are not taxable under] this chapter if:
(1) the amount of the charge for labor is separately
itemized; and
(2) the repair, remodeling, maintenance, or
restoration is required by statute, ordinance, order, rule, or
regulation of any commission, agency, court, or political,
governmental, or quasi-governmental entity in order to protect the
environment or to conserve energy.
(b) The exemption provided by this section does not apply to
tangible personal property transferred by the service provider to
the purchaser as part of the service.
SECTION 5. Section 151.335, Tax Code, is repealed.
SECTION 6. The changes in law made by this Act do not affect
tax liability accruing before the effective date of this Act. That
liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been enacted,
and the former law is continued in effect for the collection of
taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of the liability
for those taxes.
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect October 1, 2017.