Tex. Transp. Code § 453.401 · Subchapter H. TAXES
SALES AND USE TAX.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may impose for the transit department a sales and use tax at a permissible rate that does not exceed the rate approved by the voters at an election under this chapter.
(b) The board by order may:
(1) decrease the rate of the sales and use tax for the transit department to a permissible rate; or
(2) call an election for the increase or decrease of the sales and use tax to a permissible rate.
(c) The permissible rates for a sales and use tax imposed under this chapter are:
(1) one-quarter of one percent; and
(2) one-half of one percent.
(d) Chapter 322, Tax Code, applies to a transit department's sales and use tax.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.453.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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