AN ACT
1-1 relating to the referral and reporting of delinquent obligations to
1-2 the attorney general.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2107.004, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 2107.004. NOTICE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR FURTHER
1-7 COLLECTION. Except as provided by Section 2107.003(c), not later
1-8 than the 120th [30th] day after the date an obligation becomes
1-9 delinquent or past due or the 30th day after the comptroller
1-10 determines that its efforts to collect [a state agency determines
1-11 that normal agency collection procedures for] an obligation owed
1-12 the agency have failed, the agency shall report the uncollected and
1-13 delinquent obligation to the attorney general for further
1-14 collection efforts.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 2107.005, Government Code, is amended to
1-16 read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 2107.005. REPORTS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL. The attorney
1-18 general may develop specific reporting procedures for each state
1-19 agency and may adopt rules relating to the reports, including rules
1-20 specifying when an agency must report and what information must be
1-21 included in the report. Each state agency shall file an annual
1-22 debt report with the attorney general not later than the 90th day
1-23 after the end of each fiscal year. The report shall contain the
1-24 information required by rules adopted under this section by the
2-1 attorney general.
2-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1419 passed the Senate on
April 26, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1419 passed the House on
May 22, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor