By Hill H.B. No. 1408 75R3028 BEM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to eliminating the state lottery. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. (a) The State Lottery Act, Chapter 466, 1-5 Government Code, is repealed effective March 1, 1998. 1-6 (b) A lottery ticket may not be sold under the State Lottery 1-7 Act after December 1, 1997, and a lottery prize may not be awarded 1-8 under that Act after January 1, 1998. 1-9 (c) After the repeal of the State Lottery Act, all funds in 1-10 the state lottery account needed to pay future lottery prize 1-11 installments shall remain in the state lottery account subject to 1-12 the control of the comptroller of public accounts. Future prize 1-13 payments shall be made by the comptroller. Any additional funds in 1-14 the state lottery account shall be transferred to the general 1-15 revenue fund not later than March 1, 1998. 1-16 (d) All property and records of the Texas Lottery Commission 1-17 relating to the state lottery shall be transferred to the 1-18 comptroller not later than March 1, 1998. On or after that date, 1-19 the comptroller shall take any action necessary to efficiently 1-20 conclude any state business related to the operation of the state 1-21 lottery. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.