By: Nixon S.B. No. 238 97S0132/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to state lottery contracts. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 466.014, Government Code, is amended by 1-4 adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows: 1-5 (d) A contract under Subsection (b) may not have a duration 1-6 of more than four years. 1-7 (e) The executive director shall use a competitive bidding 1-8 process that complies with Section 2155.132 and Section 113.11, 1-9 Title 1, Texas Administrative Code, to award a contract under 1-10 Subsection (b). 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-12 applies only to a contract entered into or renewed on or after that 1-13 date. A contract entered into before the effective date of this 1-14 Act is governed by the law applicable to the contract at the time 1-15 the contract was entered into, and that law is continued in effect 1-16 for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.