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.