By: Ellis S.B. No. 1091
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to limitations on payments for settlement of judgments
1-3 made by state agencies from appropriated money.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 109.004, Civil Practice and Remedies
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 109.004. PAYMENT OF CLAIM [DEDUCTION] FROM
1-8 APPROPRIATION TO AGENCY [APPROPRIATION]. (a) Subject to
1-9 Subsections (b)-(d), a state agency may [(b) and (c), the
1-10 comptroller shall reduce the amount of each appropriation made to]
1-11 pay a claim subject to this chapter only from money appropriated to
1-12 [for a particular state agency from the appropriation made for]
1-13 that [state] agency in the General Appropriations Act.
1-14 (b) The amount paid under this section by [reduction in the
1-15 appropriation for] a state agency for a particular claim may not
1-16 exceed a limitation imposed by the General Appropriations Act on
1-17 the amount that may be paid by the agency on a particular claim
1-18 [$5,000].
1-19 (c) The total of all amounts paid by a state agency from
1-20 money appropriated to the [reductions in the appropriation for a
1-21 state] agency for any fiscal year under this section may not exceed
1-22 a limitation imposed by the General Appropriations Act on the
1-23 amount that may be paid under this section by a state [five percent
1-24 of the appropriation made to that] agency for that fiscal year.
1-25 (d) A limitation imposed by the General Appropriations Act
2-1 on amounts that may be paid under this section does not apply to
2-2 money specifically appropriated by the legislature to pay a claim.
2-3 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 109.005, Civil Practice
2-4 and Remedies Code, is amended to read as follows:
2-5 (a) The comptroller shall notify an affected state agency
2-6 of:
2-7 (1) each claim subject to this chapter paid by the
2-8 comptroller under this chapter for that state agency;
2-9 (2) the amount of the claim;
2-10 (3) the amount of the claim paid from a special fund
2-11 or account; and
2-12 (4) [the amount of any reduction made under Section
2-13 109.004; and]
2-14 [(5)] the subject matter of the claim.
2-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.