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.
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