You can request the cancellation of an outstanding warrant (because it has been lost or because of some other issue) by submitting the appropriate forms to the State Controller’s Office (SCO). When you cancel a warrant, STARS reverses the transaction code used to create the warrant. Depending on that transaction code, STARS may restore your agency’s cash and spending authority in the same Fund, etc. based on the original warrant. This reversal will also clear the General Ledger balance in the Warrant Clearing fund.

You can then re-issue a warrant (or EFT) by re-entering the payment in STARS or Payment Services. If you had originally added an invoice and made the payment in Payment Servcies, you can re-issue a warrant by re-entering the payment in Payment Services or STARS.

In either case, you may see a warning message that the second payment is a duplicate, but the message is only a warning.