Bill Text: TX HB1041 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prepaid wireless 9-1-1 emergency services fee; clarifying the applicability of the fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-21 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB1041 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1041-Introduced.html
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By: Flynn | H.B. No. 1041 |
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relating to the prepaid wireless 9-1-1 emergency services fee; | ||
clarifying the applicability of the fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 771.0712(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) To ensure that all 9-1-1 agencies under Section 418.051, | ||
Government Code, are adequately funded, [ |
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percent of the purchase price of each prepaid wireless | ||
telecommunications service purchased by any method[ |
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collected by the seller from the consumer at the time of each retail | ||
transaction of prepaid wireless telecommunications service | ||
occurring in this state and remitted to the comptroller consistent | ||
with Chapter 151, Tax Code, and distributed consistent with the | ||
procedures in place for the emergency services fee in Section | ||
771.0711, Health and Safety Code. A seller may deduct and retain | ||
two percent of prepaid wireless 9-1-1 emergency services fees that | ||
it collects under this section to offset its costs in administering | ||
this fee. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, | ||
the fee under this subsection is the only 9-1-1 emergency services | ||
fee that applies under this subchapter to a prepaid wireless | ||
telecommunications service. | ||
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, 2013. |