By Driver                                             H.B. No. 3115
       74R7756 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to assignments by certain recipients of state assistance
    1-3  of lottery prizes to the state and collection of those assignments.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 466, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 466.4075 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 466.4075.  ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHT TO LOTTERY PRIZE.  (a)
    1-8  The filing of an application under Chapter 31, Human Resources
    1-9  Code, constitutes an assignment to the general revenue fund of any
   1-10  rights to a lottery prize that the applicant or recipient may have
   1-11  in the applicant's or recipient's behalf or for a child for whom
   1-12  the applicant or recipient is claiming assistance in the aggregated
   1-13  amount of the assistance provided to the applicant or recipient or
   1-14  to a child of the applicant or recipient.  The assignment under
   1-15  this section is valid only if the application for assistance is
   1-16  approved.
   1-17        (b)  The director shall deduct the amount of the assignment
   1-18  under Subsection (a) from the winnings of a person.
   1-19        (c)  If a person's winnings exceed a deduction under
   1-20  Subsection (b), the director shall pay the balance to the person.
   1-21        (d)  The Texas Department of Human Services shall provide the
   1-22  director with information necessary for the deduction of the amount
   1-23  of an assignment made under this section.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
    2-1  applies to assistance provided under Chapter 31, Human Resources
    2-2  Code, and lottery prizes won on or after that date.  Assistance
    2-3  provided under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, and lottery prizes
    2-4  won before the effective date of this Act are governed by the law
    2-5  in effect on the date assistance was provided or lottery prizes
    2-6  won, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.