Amend CSSB 215 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 52.39, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 52.39.  DEFAULT; SUIT. When any person who has received or cosigned as a guarantor for a loan authorized by this chapter has failed or refused to make as many as six monthly payments due in accordance with an executed note, then the full amount of the remaining principal and interest becomes due and payable immediately, and the amount due, the person's name and [his] last known address, and other necessary information shall be reported by the board to the attorney general. Suit for the remaining sum may [shall] be instituted by the attorney general, or any county or district attorney acting for the attorney general [him], in the county of the person's residence, the county in which is located the institution at which the person was last enrolled, or in Travis County, unless the attorney general finds reasonable justification for delaying suit and so advises the board in writing.

SECTION ____.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section 52.39, Education Code, apply only to a suit filed under that section on or after the effective date of this Act. A suit filed under Section 52.39, Education Code, before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the suit is filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.