DM-0419

Dan Morales

Categories

Constitutional Law - Texas , Constitutional Law - United States , Due Process , Constitutional Law - United States , Supremacy Clause , Corporations , Governmental Instrumentalities , County Officers and Employees - General , Compensation and Benefits , Federal Statutes and Regulations , State Boards, Commissions, Departments , Comptroller of Public Accounts , State Officers and Employees , Compensation and Benefits

Summary

Student loans, federal statute permitting Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation to garnish wages of defaulters on federally-guaranteed loans overrides anti-garnishment provision of state constitution|Warrant for compensation is valuable property, statutory scheme for withholding should afford employee notice and hearing|Garnishment by comptroller of state employee wages to collect guaranteed student loans, permissibility under article XVI, section 28|Anti-garnishment provision of state constitution, federal statute permitting garnishment of wages of defaulters on federally-guaranteed loans overrides|Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, authority to garnish state and county employee wages|Garnishment of wages to collect guaranteed student loans|Salary warrants, authority to withhold from state employees who default on guaranteed student loans

Opinion File

dm0419.pdf