§ 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.