Sec. 57.482. PAYMENTS BY A STATE AGENCY TO DEFAULTING PERSONS PROHIBITED. (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. (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 .
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