Introduction to General Provisions
Role of State Agencies
Each state agency is responsible for:
- Obtaining the required information from its payees before setting them up in the Texas Identification Number System (TINS) or making changes to payee information
- Providing agency contact information to its payees
- Assisting its payees in completing the required and applicable Payment Services Forms or internal agency forms
- Submitting complete and accurate payee information in TINS
- Performing the proper due diligence research for their payees’ identification numbers, ownership types and other payee information required by TINS
- Maintaining the necessary documentation for audit purposes
- Distributing state warrants to its payees
- Responding to and researching its payees’ requests for payment status and payment remittance information, whether the payment is by warrant or direct deposit
- Maintaining confidential information in the strictest confidence and abide by the Confidential Treatment of Information Acknowledgment (CTIA) form (70-223) required of all agency users of the Comptroller statewide financial systems
- Complying with applicable federal and state laws, including warrant hold requirements
For questions regarding TINS processes, error messages, reports and forms, email tins.mail@cpa.texas.gov or contact the Payment Services Help Line at (512) 936-8138. For questions regarding the agency’s payment transactions submitted to the statewide accounting systems, such as document tracking, error messages, error corrections, etc., contact the appropriate statewide systems’ contacts:
Statewide System | Contact |
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Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS) | Your agency’s appropriation control officer or email usas.maintenance@cpa.texas.gov. |
Uniform Statewide Payroll/Personnel System (USPS) | Your agency assist staff listed on the USPS Directory or email usps.mail@cpa.texas.gov. |
Statewide Payroll/Personnel Reporting System (SPRS) | Your agency assist staff listed on the SPRS Directory or email sprs.mail@cpa.texas.gov. |
Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) | CAPPS Contact and Help or email capps.help@cpa.texas.gov. |