By Hirschi H.B. No. 2808 74R6419 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the sale of a lottery ticket from a vending machine. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 466.253, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) A sales agent or an employee of a sales agent may not 1-7 use a vending machine to sell or to offer to sell a lottery ticket 1-8 if any individual under 18 years of age may: 1-9 (1) enter the room where the vending machine is 1-10 located; or 1-11 (2) otherwise obtain access to the vending machine. 1-12 (d) Each person who sells lottery tickets by vending machine 1-13 shall post a sign in a location that is conspicuous to all 1-14 employees and customers and that is close to the place at which the 1-15 lottery tickets may be purchased. 1-16 (e) The sign must include the statement: "SALE OF A LOTTERY 1-17 TICKET TO A PERSON UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE IS PROHIBITED BY LAW." 1-18 (f) The commission by rule shall determine the design and 1-19 size of the sign. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 3. Sections 466.253(c), (d), (e), and (f), 1-22 Government Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to the sale of 1-23 a lottery ticket that occurs on or after the effective date of this 1-24 Act. The sale of a lottery ticket that occurs before the effective 2-1 date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of 2-2 the sale, and the former law is continued in effect for that 2-3 purpose. 2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.