Bill Text: TX HB205 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to the imposition by certain municipalities and municipal transit departments of the local sales and use tax in certain federal military installations.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-28 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HB205 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB205-Engrossed.html

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By: Pickett H.B. No. 205

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the imposition by certain municipalities and municipal
transit departments of the local sales and use tax in certain
federal military installations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 321, Tax Code, is amended
by adding Section 321.1045 to read as follows:
Sec. 321.1045. IMPOSITION OF SALES AND USE TAX IN CERTAIN
FEDERAL MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. (a) This section applies only to a
municipality with a population of more than 500,000 that borders
the United Mexican States.
(b) For purposes of the sales and use tax imposed under this
chapter, a reference in this chapter or other law to the
municipality as the territory in which the tax or an incident of the
tax applies includes the area within the boundaries of a federal
military installation that is located in the municipality's
extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(c) This section does not affect:
(1) the boundaries of an emergency services district
that contains territory within the boundaries of a federal military
installation on the effective date of this section;
(2) the authority of that emergency services district
to continue to impose a sales and use tax in the entire territory of
the district; or
(3) the duty of that emergency services district to
provide services in the entire territory of the district.
SECTION 2. Section 453.051, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The jurisdiction of a transit department created by a
municipality with a population of more than 500,000 that borders
the United Mexican States does not include any territory within the
boundaries of a federal military installation that is located in
that municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect July 1, 2011, 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 effect on that
date, this Act takes effect October 1, 2011.