Texas Education Code

§ 57.482 — PAYMENTS BY A STATE AGENCY TO DEFAULTING PERSONS PROHIBITED

ED § 57.482Title 3. HIGHER EDUCATION · Part A. HIGHER EDUCATION IN GENERAL · Ch. 57. GUARANTEED STUDENT LOANS · Art. C. STUDENT LOANS

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(a)A state agency, as a ministerial duty, may not use funds inside or outside the state treasury to pay a person or the person's assignee if Section 57.48 prohibits the comptroller from issuing a warrant or initiating an electronic funds transfer to the person or assignee.

(b)A state agency that is prohibited by Subsection (a) from making a payment to a person also is prohibited from paying any part of that payment to:

(1)the person's estate;

(2)the distributees of the person's estate; or

(3)the person's surviving spouse.

(c)The comptroller may not reimburse a state agency for a payment that the comptroller determines was made in violation of this section.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1467, Sec. 1.02, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.