By King of Uvalde H.B. No. 2429
76R12735 JRD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the method used by the comptroller of public accounts
1-3 to pay vendors and other persons.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 403.016(c) and (h), Government Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The comptroller shall use the electronic funds transfer
1-8 system to make:
1-9 (1) payments of more than $100 to annuitants by the
1-10 Employees Retirement System of Texas or the Teacher Retirement
1-11 System of Texas under either system's administrative jurisdiction;
1-12 (2) recurring payments to municipalities, counties,
1-13 political subdivisions, special districts, and other governmental
1-14 entities of this state; and
1-15 (3) payments to vendors who choose to receive payment
1-16 through the electronic funds transfer system rather than by
1-17 warrant.
1-18 (h) Notwithstanding any requirement in this section to make
1-19 a payment through the electronic funds transfer system, the
1-20 comptroller shall issue a warrant to pay a person if:
1-21 (1) the person properly notifies the comptroller that:
1-22 (A) receiving the payment by electronic funds
1-23 transfer would be impractical to the person;
1-24 (B) receiving the payment by electronic funds
2-1 transfer would be more costly to the person than receiving the
2-2 payment by warrant; [or]
2-3 (C) the person is unable to establish a
2-4 qualifying account at a financial institution to receive electronic
2-5 funds transfers; or
2-6 (D) the person chooses to receive the payment by
2-7 warrant; or
2-8 (2) the state agency on whose behalf the comptroller
2-9 makes the payment properly notifies the comptroller that:
2-10 (A) making the payment by electronic funds
2-11 transfer would be impractical to the agency; or
2-12 (B) making the payment by electronic funds
2-13 transfer would be more costly to the agency than making the payment
2-14 by warrant.
2-15 SECTION 2. Section 403.016(k), Government Code, is repealed.
2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-22 passage, and it is so enacted.