1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 1330 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 1-4 April 11, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, 1-5 Nays 2; April 11, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the sale of the lottery tickets of another state or 1-9 government in this state; providing a criminal penalty. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 466, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 466.317 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 466.317. PROHIBITION AGAINST SALE OF CERTAIN LOTTERY 1-14 TICKETS. (a) Except as permitted by a compact entered into under 1-15 Subsection (b), a person may not sell or offer for sale in this 1-16 state any interest in a lottery of another state or state 1-17 government or an Indian tribe or tribal government, including an 1-18 interest in an actual lottery ticket, receipt, contingent promise 1-19 to pay, order to purchase, or other record of the interest. 1-20 (b) The state may enter into a compact with another state or 1-21 state government or an Indian tribe or tribal government to permit 1-22 the sale of lottery tickets of this state in the state's, tribe's, 1-23 or government's jurisdiction and to allow the sale of the state's, 1-24 tribe's, or government's lottery tickets in this state. 1-25 (c) A person commits an offense if the person violates this 1-26 section. An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. 1-27 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-28 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this 1-29 Act. For the purposes of this section, an offense is committed 1-30 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense 1-31 occurs before that date. 1-32 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this 1-33 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, 1-34 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-35 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-36 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-37 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-38 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-39 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-40 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-41 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-42 * * * * *