Tex.
Local Gov't Code Section 504.261
Concurrent Election with Election Under Tax Code
(a)
At an election to adopt, reduce, increase, or abolish the sales and use tax under this chapter, the authorizing municipality may also allow voters to vote on the same ballot on a proposition to impose, reduce, increase, or abolish the additional sales and use tax imposed under Section 321.101 (Tax Authorized)(b), Tax Code, if the municipality is authorized by Chapter 321 (Municipal Sales and Use Tax Act), Tax Code, to impose, reduce, increase, or abolish the additional sales and use tax. Except as provided by Subsection (b), the municipality must follow the procedures of Chapter 321 (Municipal Sales and Use Tax Act), Tax Code, in relation to the imposition, reduction, increase, or abolishment of the additional sales and use tax imposed under Section 321.101 (Tax Authorized)(b), Tax Code.(b)
In an election to impose, reduce, increase, or abolish the tax under this chapter and the additional sales and use tax, the ballot shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the proposition: “The adoption of a sales and use tax within the municipality for the promotion and development of new and expanded business enterprises at the rate of __________ percent (insert appropriate rate) and the adoption of an additional sales and use tax within the municipality at the rate of __________ percent to be used to reduce the property tax rate” (insert appropriate rate).
Source:
Section 504.261 — Concurrent Election with Election Under Tax Code, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.504.htm#504.261 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
