By Lucio S.B. No. 1419
76R9316 GCH-F
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 the 120th [30th] day after the date an obligation becomes
1-10 delinquent [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 not later than the 90th day
1-22 after the end of each fiscal year. The report shall contain the
1-23 information required by rules adopted under this section by the
1-24 attorney general.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.