Bill Text: TX HB2315 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a county's general revenue levy for indigent health care.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2315 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2315-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a county's general revenue levy for indigent health care.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2315 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2315-Comm_Sub.html
By: Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Deuell) | H.B. No. 2315 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011; | ||
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Intergovernmental Relations; May 21, 2011, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 21, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to a county's general revenue levy for indigent health | ||
care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.002(5), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(5) "General revenue levy" means: | ||
(A) the property taxes imposed by a county that | ||
are not dedicated to: | ||
(i) the construction and maintenance of | ||
farm-to-market roads under Article VIII, Section 1-a, Texas | ||
Constitution; | ||
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further maintenance of the public roads under Article VIII, Section | ||
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(iv) the payment of principal or interest | ||
on county debt; and | ||
(B) the sales and use tax revenue to be received | ||
by the county during the calendar year in which the state fiscal | ||
year begins under Chapter 323, Tax Code, as determined under | ||
Section 26.041(d), Tax Code. | ||
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, 2011. | ||
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