SRC-JJJ, JBJ S.B. 1419 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research CenterS.B. 1419 By: Lucio State Affairs 7/26/1999 Enrolled DIGEST Currently, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Administrative Rules require all state agencies to refer delinquent obligations to the OAG after "normal agency collection procedures have failed" and to file annual debt reports with the OAG within 90 days of the close of each fiscal year. These rules were authorized under Section 2107.005, Government Code. However, the collection requirement regarding normal collection procedures is ambiguous. In addition, the deadline could be more efficient as a statutory requirement rather than an administrative rule and be moved back to 120 days rather than 30 days. S.B. 1419 will amend the requirements for reporting and referring certain delinquent obligations to the attorney general. PURPOSE As enrolled, S.B. 1419 amends the requirements for referring and reporting certain delinquent obligations to the attorney general. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 2107.004, Government Code, to require an agency to report an uncollected and delinquent obligation to the attorney general for further collection efforts not later than the 120th, rather than the 30th, day after the date an obligation becomes delinquent or past due or the 30th day after the comptroller determines that its efforts to collect an obligation owed the agency have failed. SECTION 2. Amends Section 2107.005, Government Code, to require each state agency to file an annual debt report with the attorney general by a certain date. Requires the report to contain the information required by rules adopted under this section by the attorney general. SECTION 3.Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 4.Emergency clause.