Texas Vernon's Civil Statutes § 6243-24 Warrants Against Texas Old Age Assistance Fund; Interest; Calling Warrants

Art. 6243-24. WARRANTS AGAINST TEXAS OLD AGE ASSISTANCE FUND; INTEREST; CALLING WARRANTS.

Sec. 1. AUTHORITY TO PAY INTEREST. The Texas Old Age Assistance Commission is hereby authorized to pay interest, so long as said warrants are unpaid, on warrants issued against the Texas Old Age Assistance Fund for the payment of old age assistance benefits when the cash balance of the moneys deposited to the credit of said Fund by the State of Texas is insufficient to pay in cash the State's part of the pension requirements, and there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys appropriated to the Texas Old Age Assistance Fund a sufficient amount to pay interest charges accruing under this Act, but in the event that interest is paid on or on account of such warrants as authorized in this Act, no such warrant, issued for a single month, including both principal and interest paid thereon or therefor, shall ever exceed Fifteen Dollars ($15) of State money.

Sec. 2. FORM AND METHODS. The form and method of issuing such warrants and of paying the interest thereon as herein authorized shall be prescribed by the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission. The Comptroller is authorized and directed to perform such duties as are required under the authority of this Act to accomplish its purpose.

Sec. 3. DETERMINATION OF INTEREST RATE. Before the issuance of any such warrants, the State Banking Board shall, upon application by the Old Age Assistance Commission, determine the rate of interest which shall be paid on account of such warrants as authorized herein, such interest rate never to exceed two and one-half (2-1/2) per centum per annum.

Sec. 4. AUTHORITY NOT LIMITED BY ARTICLE 6243-1. The authority conferred by this Act to pay said interest shall not be limited by the provisions of Section 6 of Chapter 472, Acts of the Second Called Session of the Forty-fourth Legislature.

Sec. 5. LIMITATION. Provided that the power conferred in this Act does not authorize the issuance of more than Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($900,000) of warrants upon which or on account of which interest may be paid, and provided further that no such warrants shall be issued after September 1, 1939.

Sec. 6. OUTSTANDING WARRANTS TO BE PAID. a. It is provided that the Comptroller of the State of Texas shall call all warrants now outstanding that have heretofore been issued under the authority and provisions of Chapter 496, Page 2084, Acts 1936, Forty-fourth Legislature, Third Called Session, and he is directed and authorized to pay said warrants, together with interest thereon, out of the Texas Old Age Assistance Fund, according to the following schedule:

On October 10, 1939, warrants in the amount of One Hundred Thirty Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty-seven Dollars ($130,987) shall be called and paid by the Comptroller, together with interest thereon, and on the 10th day of each month thereafter, the Comptroller is directed and authorized to call and pay the remaining outstanding warrants in the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000) per month, together with interest thereon, until such time as all outstanding warrants hereinabove referred to shall be called and paid in full, and there is hereby appropriated out of funds allocated in present and/or future laws to the Old Age Assistance Fund a sum sufficient to pay said obligations and the interest thereon.

b. The Comptroller of the State of Texas is directed and authorized to call and pay all warrants that might hereafter be issued under and by virtue of the provisions of this Act in approximate equal monthly installments on the 10th day of the months May, 1940, to September, 1940, both inclusive, together with interest thereon, out of the Texas Old Age Assistance Fund, and there is hereby appropriated out of funds allocated in present and/or future laws to the Old Age Assistance Fund a sum sufficient to pay said obligations and the interest thereon.

Sec. 7. EXCHANGE OF ORIGINAL WARRANTS FOR OBLIGATIONS OF STATE. (1) The Old Age Assistance Commission be and is hereby authorized and directed to offer to and deliver to the holder, or holders, of the warrants which may be issued under the provisions of this Act and of the warrants heretofore issued for Old Age Assistance under authority of Chapter 496, Page 2084, Acts 1936, Forty-fourth Legislature, Third Called Session, and now outstanding, the State's obligation in the same principal amount, or amounts, in such forms and denominations as shall be determined by such Commission, approved by the Attorney General, and acceptable to such holder, or holders, bearing interest at not to exceed one and six-tenths (1.6) per cent per annum or not to exceed the rate of interest which shall be paid on or on account of the warrants which may be issued under the terms of this Act, whichever rate is the lower. Said obligations shall bear dates to be fixed by the Commission and shall mature exactly according to the schedules set out in Section 6 hereof.

(2) Upon exchange of the original warrants for the obligations authorized hereunder the Comptroller shall retain in his possession in escrow as trustee said original warrants until the obligations herein authorized are paid in full. And the holder, or holders, of such obligations, in addition to all other rights, shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such original warrants. Upon payment of such obligations said original warrants shall be cancelled by the Comptroller. There is hereby appropriated out of funds allocated in present and/or future laws to the Old Age Assistance Fund a sum sufficient to pay said obligations and the interest thereon.

(3) Interest on such original warrants shall be paid in accordance with the contract or contracts under which they were issued up to the date of the exchange for the obligations authorized herein.

(4) Such obligations to be substituted therefor shall be eligible to secure deposits of all funds of the State of Texas, and of counties, cities, districts, and political subdivisions of and in the State of Texas on the basis of one dollar principal amount of such obligations for each dollar of deposited funds.

(5) The Governor, Attorney General, Texas Old Age Assistance Commission, Comptroller of Public Accounts, and the Secretary of State are hereby directed to do any and all things necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Section.

(6) When such obligations shall have been issued in accordance with a resolution adopted by the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission and shall have been approved by the Attorney General, they shall be incontestable and the full faith and credit of the State shall be pledged to their payment.

Sec. 8. ACT CUMULATIVE; CONFLICTING LAWS. This Act shall be cumulative of all other laws on the subject, but in event any provision of this Act shall be in conflict with the provisions of any other laws, the provisions of this Act shall have precedence and shall be fully effective.

Acts 1939, 46th Leg., p. 536. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1423, Sec. 21.64, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

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