Bill Text: TX HB158 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation and use of the proceeds from taxes imposed on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB158 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB158-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 158 |
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relating to the allocation and use of the proceeds from taxes | ||
imposed on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 151.801(c) and (c-1), Tax Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
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collection of the taxes imposed by this chapter on the sale, | ||
storage, or use of sporting goods shall be deposited as follows: | ||
(1) an amount equal to 94 percent of the proceeds shall | ||
be credited to the Parks and Wildlife Department and deposited as | ||
specified in the Parks and Wildlife Code; and | ||
(2) an amount equal to six percent of the proceeds | ||
shall be credited to the Texas Historical Commission and deposited | ||
as specified in Section 442.073, Government Code. | ||
(c-1) Money credited to Parks and Wildlife Department | ||
accounts under Subsection (c) may be appropriated only: | ||
(1) to acquire, operate, maintain, and make capital | ||
improvements to parks; | ||
(2) for a purpose authorized under Chapter 24, Parks | ||
and Wildlife Code; and | ||
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the state contributions for employee benefits of Parks and Wildlife | ||
Department employees whose salaries or wages are paid from those | ||
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 158 was passed by the House on May 1, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 158 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
18, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
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Governor |