Maybe you have a relation set into another table from TmpState where the BROWSE is actually required to set that relation on a real record in the related table? IIRC, this used to be a bug in VFP earlier versions. Maybe it still is. Anyway, see if this resolves your problem.

SELE TmpState
LOCATE
IF NOT EOF()
   SKIP
ENDIF
LOCATE
REPORT FORM...

>This works:
>

>   SELE TMPSTATE
>   GO TOP
>
>   BROWSE
>
>   REPORT FORM ap_state NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER NEXT nprintno
>

>This does not:
>

>   SELE TMPSTATE && I verify this is correct
>   GO TOP
>
>*   BROWSE <--If I check the alias() it is correct why should this need to be here?
>
>   REPORT FORM ap_state NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER NEXT nprintno
>