By McClendon H.B. No. 3335 76R7797 GJH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notification by the Texas Lottery Commission for 1-3 certain lottery drawings. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 466.401, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The commission shall adopt rules requiring the 1-8 commission to promptly notify sales agents and the news media when 1-9 any lottery drawing is invalid and must be redrawn. Notification 1-10 under this subsection shall be made in a manner that provides 1-11 reasonable notice to the public. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-13 applies only to a lottery drawing that occurs on or after that 1-14 date. A lottery drawing that occurs before the effective date of 1-15 this Act is governed by the law in effect on the day the drawing 1-16 occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that 1-17 purpose. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.