1-1           By:  Nixon                                       S.B. No. 238

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 17, 1997; January 21, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     February 19, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas

 1-5     13, Nays 0; February 19, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to state lottery contracts.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 466.014, Government Code, is amended by

1-11     adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:

1-12           (d)  A contract under Subsection (b) may not have a duration

1-13     of more than four years.

1-14           (e)  The executive director shall use a competitive bidding

1-15     process that complies with Section 2155.132 of this code and

1-16     Section 113.11, Title 1, Texas Administrative Code, to award a

1-17     contract under Subsection (b).

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-19     applies only to a contract entered into or renewed on or after that

1-20     date.  A contract entered into before the effective date of this

1-21     Act is governed by the law applicable to the contract at the time

1-22     the contract was entered into, and that law is continued in effect

1-23     for that purpose.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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