Bill Text: TX SB446 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to allowable transfers to the Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission of proceeds from the taxes on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-17 - Referred to Appropriations [SB446 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB446-Introduced.html

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83R6689 SGA-D
By: Eltife S.B. No. 446

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to allowable transfers to the Parks and Wildlife
Department and the Texas Historical Commission of proceeds from the
taxes on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 151.801(c-1), Tax Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c-1) Except as provided by this subsection, the [The]
comptroller may not credit to the Parks and Wildlife Department or
the Texas Historical Commission any amounts under this section that
are in excess of the amounts appropriated to the department or
commission for that biennium[, less any other amounts to which the
department or commission is entitled]. In addition to amounts
appropriated to the Parks and Wildlife Department from the proceeds
described by Subsection (c), the comptroller shall transfer to
appropriate department accounts amounts from those proceeds
sufficient to fund the state contributions for employee benefits of
Parks and Wildlife Department employees whose salaries or wages are
paid from department accounts receiving the transfers.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.