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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