Amend CSHB 1038 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Chapter 419, Property Code, is amended by 
adding Section 419.0031 to read as follows:
	Sec. 419.0031.  INTEREST ON UNPAID PENALTY.  Interest 
accrues on an unpaid administrative penalty at a rate of 18 percent 
compounded annually beginning on the day after the date specified 
for payment under Section 419.003.
	SECTION ____.  The change in law made by Section 419.0031, 
Property Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an 
administrative penalty assessed on or after the effective date of 
this Act.  A penalty assessed before the effective date of this Act 
is subject to the law in effect immediately before that date, and 
that law is continued in effect for that purpose.