1-1     By:  Duncan                                           S.B. No. 1434
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 16, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the retention or refund of certain money collected or
 1-9     received by a state agency.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 403.077, Government Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13           (f)  Before paying a refund under this section, the
1-14     comptroller:
1-15                 (1)  shall:
1-16                       (A)  credit the amount due to the person claiming
1-17     the refund against any other amount finally determined to be due to
1-18     the state from the person according to information in the custody
1-19     of the comptroller; and
1-20                       (B)  refund the remainder; and
1-21                 (2)  may transfer money from one fund or account to
1-22     another for a purpose described by Subdivision (1).
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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