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.