By Goolsby                                      H.B. No. 2458

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to compensation of the members of the Texas Lottery

 1-3     Commission.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 467.027(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  A commission member is [not] entitled to receive for the

 1-8     member's services an annual salary of $150,000 [compensation for

 1-9     serving on the  commission].

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.