1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 1419
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 9, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-5 Nays 0; April 9, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the referral and reporting of delinquent obligations to
1-9 the attorney general.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2107.004, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 2107.004. NOTICE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR FURTHER
1-14 COLLECTION. Except as provided by Section 2107.003(c), not later
1-15 than the 120th [30th] day after the date an obligation becomes
1-16 delinquent [a state agency determines that normal agency collection
1-17 procedures for an obligation owed the agency have failed], the
1-18 agency shall report the uncollected and delinquent obligation to
1-19 the attorney general for further collection efforts.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 2107.005, Government Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 2107.005. REPORTS TO ATTORNEY GENERAL. The attorney
1-23 general may develop specific reporting procedures for each state
1-24 agency and may adopt rules relating to the reports, including rules
1-25 specifying when an agency must report and what information must be
1-26 included in the report. Each state agency shall file an annual
1-27 debt report with the attorney general not later than the 90th day
1-28 after the end of each fiscal year. The report shall contain the
1-29 information required by rules adopted under this section by the
1-30 attorney general.
1-31 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-32 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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