By Duncan                                             S.B. No. 1434
         76R935(1) JJT                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the retention or refund of certain money collected or
 1-3     received by a state agency.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 403.077, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  Before paying a refund under this section, the
 1-8     comptroller:
 1-9                 (1)  shall:
1-10                       (A)  credit the amount due to the person claiming
1-11     the refund against any other amount finally determined to be due to
1-12     the state from the person according to information in the custody
1-13     of the comptroller; and
1-14                       (B)  refund the remainder; and
1-15                 (2)  may transfer money from one fund or account to
1-16     another for a purpose described by Subdivision (1).
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.