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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to an exemption from the sales tax for items sold by a | 
      
        |  | nonprofit organization at a county fair. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 151, Tax Code, is amended | 
      
        |  | by adding Section 151.3102 to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | Sec. 151.3102.  SALE BY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AT COUNTY | 
      
        |  | FAIR.  The sale of a taxable item is exempt from the taxes imposed by | 
      
        |  | this chapter if: | 
      
        |  | (1)  the seller or retailer is a nonprofit organization | 
      
        |  | that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a), | 
      
        |  | Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed as an exempt | 
      
        |  | organization in Section 501(c)(3) of that code; | 
      
        |  | (2)  the sale takes place at a county fair; and | 
      
        |  | (3)  the purchaser is a person attending or | 
      
        |  | participating in the fair. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act do not affect | 
      
        |  | tax liability accruing before the effective date of this Act.  That | 
      
        |  | liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been enacted, | 
      
        |  | and the former law is continued in effect for the collection of | 
      
        |  | taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of the liability | 
      
        |  | for those taxes. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 2684 was passed by the House on April | 
      
        |  | 16, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 1, 1 present, not | 
      
        |  | voting. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 2684 was passed by the Senate on May | 
      
        |  | 15, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
        |  | APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
        |  | Date | 
      
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        |  | Governor |