Sec. 1232.113. OBLIGATION ISSUANCE ORIENTATION; INFORMATION TO AND FROM CLIENT AGENCIES. (a) In this section, "client agency" means a state agency on whose behalf the board may issue obligations.

(b) The authority shall develop an orientation to the obligation issuance process for the authority's client agencies.

(c) The orientation must include:

(1) information explaining the obligation issuance process in plain language; and

(2) an orientation meeting to be held before the issuance process begins.

(d) As part of the orientation, a client agency shall provide to the authority:

(1) detailed information concerning the project for which obligations are to be issued;

(2) a description of the legislative authority for the issuance of the obligations; and

(3) the names of employees of the client agency who are designated to work with the authority in connection with the project.

(e) The authority shall prepare information of interest to the authority's client agencies describing the functions of the authority and the procedures by which complaints are filed with and resolved by the authority. The authority shall make the information available to its client agencies.

(f) The board by rule shall establish methods by which client agencies are notified of the name, mailing address, and telephone number of the authority for the purpose of directing complaints to the authority. The board may provide for that notification on a form provided to a client agency during the orientation.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.