By Oliveira H.B. No. 566
75R3282 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to deductions from the winnings of lottery winners
1-3 determined to be delinquent in certain amounts collected by the
1-4 Texas Workforce Commission.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 466.407(a) and (c), Government Code, are
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) The executive director shall deduct the amount of a
1-9 delinquent tax or other money from the winnings of a person who has
1-10 been finally determined to be:
1-11 (1) delinquent in the payment of a tax or other money
1-12 collected by the comptroller, the Texas Workforce Commission
1-13 [state treasurer], or the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission;
1-14 (2) delinquent in making child support payments
1-15 administered or collected by the attorney general;
1-16 (3) in default on a loan made under Chapter 52,
1-17 Education Code; or
1-18 (4) in default on a loan guaranteed under Chapter 57,
1-19 Education Code.
1-20 (c) The attorney general, comptroller, Texas Workforce
1-21 Commission [state treasurer], Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission,
1-22 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and Texas Guaranteed
1-23 Student Loan Corporation shall each provide the executive director
1-24 with a report of persons who have been finally determined to be
2-1 delinquent in the payment of a tax or other money collected by the
2-2 agency. The commission shall adopt rules regarding the form and
2-3 frequency of reports under this subsection.
2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.