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The controversy over this biology book and its presentation of evolution , and certainly people in the community who felt that creationism or creation-science should be given equal time was certainly within the community , and there were many people at that meeting who addressed the issue of their own opinions during public comment , she being one . Administration of this tax , including the tax reports , audits and responsibility for obtaining security instruments transferred from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to the Comptroller 's Office effective January 1 , 1994 . I frankly do n't see any downside to this discussion , that we are standing here as the Senate in favor of intellectual freedom and open and fair discussion of using science , not philosophy and religion within the context of science , but science as the basis for this determination , end quote . If you like pipelines , this issue is for you - - it contains summaries of two hearings and a letter discussing work performed on pipelines . Under the second option , the company collects and remits sales tax on the face value of the card when it is sold , unless the buyer ( e.g ., a convenience store ) gives the company a resale certificate and collects tax from its customer . A. Basically that - - I believe they believe that the earth is somewhere around 10,000 years old , did n't believe that the earth was as old as some of the carbon dating and things like that that the evidence shows . We also thought that it made sense to be at the end also because I think evolution is - - bears heavily on environment and ecology and how populations change and how they compete for resources and things like that . It pointed out that " the Legislature has frequently placed public utilities within a class by themselves for the purposes of taxation " ( citing cases ) since , once a plant is placed in service , the utility can recover AFUDC equity by adding it as a cost of construction to the utility 's rate base . A. My recollection is something was said , I believe it was by Mr. Brown , something about the addition of this being sued or something like that , do they have the right to sue us . And at the June - - I think it 's somewhere around June 14th meeting of the curriculum committee , Mrs. Spahr asked Mr. Buckingham where he had gotten that picture of the mural . By requesting an expedited hearing , the taxpayer must agree to abbreviated discovery timetables in the event the Tax Division should initiate discovery during the pre-hearing phase and to file resale and exemption certificates no later than the date of hearing or by the 60th day from the date of the hearing request , whichever occurs first . There was also another department within the school that had done the same thing as well , and that was the family and consumer science department . A. My recollection is that someone mentioned something about a mural , I do n't know , held up a picture or something like that at a previous board meeting . Under this proposed amendment , we will not revoke the election under subsection ( f ) ( 1 ) ( B ) or ( C ) of the rule if a corporation files , within 60 days from the date of notice of the revocation , an amended report correcting the error which caused the impending revocation . A. Most of the discussion focused around , you know , again , I thought you did n't teach origins of life , how can this mural be in the back of a classroom if you do n't teach that , what message does that send to the students if you're not teaching it but this mural is in the back , and , again , disagreeing with the whole idea that man evolved , I guess , or came from monkeys . We sent a letter to university and college presidents and chancellors explaining the new provision allowing student organizations affiliated with a college or university to hold a one-day , tax-free sale once a month and asking the institutions to send us a list of their registered student organizations . " Once the contractor had finished its work in one grid , it would move on to the next grid . During its most recent session , the Texas Legislature passed a bill requiring the Comptroller 's office to collect an annual Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund ( TIF ) assessment of $ 75 million from telecommunication utilities , such as telephone companies , long distance carriers and wireline services , and $ 75 million from commercial mobile service providers , such as cellular phone companies , paging companies and folks who resell these services .