By McCall                                             H.B. No. 3213
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the referral and reporting of delinquent obligations to
 1-3     the attorney general.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2107.004, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2107.004.  NOTICE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR FURTHER
 1-8     COLLECTION.  Except as provided by Section 2107.003(c), not later
 1-9     than 120 days after an obligation becomes delinquent [the 30th day
1-10     after the date a state agency determines that normal agency
1-11     collection procedures for an obligation owed the agency have
1-12     failed], the agency shall report the uncollected and delinquent
1-13     obligation to the attorney general for further collection efforts.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 2107.005, Government Code, is amended to
1-15     read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 2107.005.  REPORTS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL.  The attorney
1-17     general may develop specific reporting procedures for each state
1-18     agency and may adopt rules relating to the reports, including rules
1-19     specifying when an agency must report and what information must be
1-20     included in the report.  Each state agency shall file an annual
1-21     debt report with the attorney general within ninety days of the
 2-1     close of each fiscal year.  The report shall contain the
 2-2     information required by rules adopted under this section by the
 2-3     attorney general.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect on
 2-5     September 1, 1999.
 2-6           SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
 2-7     and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.