By Nelson                                             S.B. No. 1330
       74R8124 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the sale of the lottery tickets of another state or
    1-3  government in this state; providing a criminal penalty.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 466, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 466.317 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 466.317.  PROHIBITION AGAINST SALE OF CERTAIN LOTTERY
    1-8  TICKETS.  (a)  Except as permitted by a compact entered into under
    1-9  Subsection (b), a person may not sell or offer for sale in this
   1-10  state any interest in a lottery of another state or state
   1-11  government or an Indian tribe or tribal government, including an
   1-12  interest in an actual lottery ticket, receipt, contingent promise
   1-13  to pay, order to purchase, or other record of the interest.
   1-14        (b)  The state may enter into a compact with another state or
   1-15  state government or an Indian tribe or tribal government to permit
   1-16  the sale of lottery tickets of this state in the state's, tribe's,
   1-17  or government's jurisdiction and to allow the sale of the state's,
   1-18  tribe's, or government's lottery tickets in this state.
   1-19        (c)  A person commits an offense if the person violates this
   1-20  section.  An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-22  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-23  Act.  For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed
   1-24  before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
    2-1  occurs before that date.
    2-2        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
    2-3  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
    2-4  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.