By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1330
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the sale of the lottery tickets of another state or
    1-2  government in this state; providing a criminal penalty.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 466, Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 466.317 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 466.317.  PROHIBITION AGAINST SALE OF CERTAIN LOTTERY
    1-7  TICKETS.  (a)  Except as permitted by a compact entered into under
    1-8  Subsection (b), a person may not sell or offer for sale in this
    1-9  state any interest in a lottery of another state or state
   1-10  government or an Indian tribe or tribal government, including an
   1-11  interest in an actual lottery ticket, receipt, contingent promise
   1-12  to pay, order to purchase, or other record of the interest.
   1-13        (b)  The state may enter into a compact with another state or
   1-14  state government or an Indian tribe or tribal government to permit
   1-15  the sale of lottery tickets of this state in the state's, tribe's,
   1-16  or government's jurisdiction and to allow the sale of the state's,
   1-17  tribe's, or government's lottery tickets in this state.
   1-18        (c)  A person commits an offense if the person violates this
   1-19  section.  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-21  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-22  Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
   1-23  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
   1-24  occurs before that date.
    2-1        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
    2-2  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
    2-3  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  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,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.