The Livingston Sales Tax is collected by the merchant on all qualifying sales made within Livingston Groceries are exempt from the Livingston and Texas state sales taxes Livingston collects a 0% local sales tax, the maximum local sales tax allowed under Texas law Livingston has a lower sales tax than 99.9% of Texas' other cities and counties
Inasmuch as Article V of the Federal Constitution specifies that. amendments shall become effective ââwhen ratified by legislatures of three-fourths of the several. States or by conventions in three-fourths thereof,ââ it has been generally believed that an ap-. proval or veto by a governor is without significance.
Article Five of the United States Constitution prescribes two methods for proposing and two methods for the ratification of an amendment. An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a national convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. The latter procedure has never been used.