LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
 
FISCAL NOTE, 88TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
 
April 2, 2023

TO:
Honorable Morgan Meyer, Chair, House Committee on Ways & Means
 
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
 
IN RE:
HB2691 by Button (relating to the authority of the comptroller of public accounts to issue certain payments to persons who are indebted or delinquent in taxes owed to the state and to state agency reporting requirements regarding such persons.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

This bill would amend Government Code Section 403.055 (Comptroller Payments to Debtors or Delinquents Prohibited) to add Subsection (e-1), to allow the Comptroller to issue a payment to a person indebted to the state after having withheld the amount of the indebtedness; and to add (g-1), to detail a state agency's reporting and notification requirements related to such indebtedness.

According to the Comptroller, the bill would have no fiscal impact to the state.

The bill would take effect September 1, 2023.

Local Government Impact

No fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.


Source Agencies:
304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:
JMc, KK, SD, BRI