FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
                        SECOND SESSION, 1998
  
  
                                                February 18, 1998
  
  
  Mr. Speaker:
  
       Your TAXATION AND REVENUE COMMITTEE, to whom has
  been referred
  
                 SENATE BILL 145, as amended
                               
  has had it under consideration and reports same with
  recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
  
                 1.   On page 1, line 23, after the period insert the      
   following:
  
            "When an account meeting the requirements of this
  section is assigned to the Department pursuant to the provisions
  of this section, the department shall present the assignment to
  the department of finance and administration.  Within five
  business days following the presentation, the department of
  finance and administration shall cause an amount sufficient to
  discharge the amount of the account to be transferred or paid from
  the appropriate account or fund into the appropriate account or
  fund of the department, unless the secretary of finance and
  administration finds that the amount owed has been paid or had
  been disputed prior to presentation by the department and the
  dispute remains unresolved.".
  
                 2.   On page 2, line 4, before the period insert "or, in the
  discretion of the secretary, may be credited to the account of the
  taxpayer".
  
                 3.   On page 2, line 10, insert after "agency" the
  punctuation and words ", the agency does not dispute the amount
  owed and the account is more than thirty days past due".
  
            
  
                                Respectfully submitted,
  
  
  
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                                                              Jerry W. Sandel, Chairman
  
  
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  The roll call vote was<u> 10 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
  Yes:      10
            Excused:  Lovejoy, Russell, Sandoval
            Absent:   None
  
  
  
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