By McClendon                                          H.B. No. 3335
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                                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.