Texas Education Code 57.482 – Payments by a State Agency to Defaulting Persons Prohibited
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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.
Terms Used In Texas Education Code 57.482
- Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) The comptroller may not reimburse a state agency for a payment that the comptroller determines was made in violation of this section.
(d) This section applies to a payment only if the comptroller is not responsible under Section 404.046, 404.069, or 2103.003, Government Code, for issuing a warrant or initiating an electronic funds transfer to make the payment.
(e) In this section, “state agency” has the meaning assigned by Section 57.48.