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.