By Ellis S.B. No. 584
76R440 JSA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to establishing the Hope adult literacy grant program to
1-3 be funded by revenue from a special lottery game.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 466, Government Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 466.026 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 466.026. GAME TO FUND HOPE ADULT LITERACY GRANT
1-8 PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall operate a lottery game to fund
1-9 the Hope adult literacy grant program established by Section 7.025,
1-10 Education Code. The commission shall operate the game as an
1-11 instant-win game and shall provide for tickets to the game to be
1-12 available for sale continuously to the extent practicable. The
1-13 commission may vary the manner in which the game is played or
1-14 conducted as the commission determines appropriate.
1-15 (b) The commission shall market and advertise the lottery
1-16 game operated under this section in a manner intended to inform the
1-17 general public that tickets to the game are available for purchase
1-18 and that the net proceeds from the game are used to fund adult
1-19 literacy programs in this state. The commission shall consider any
1-20 recommendations made by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
1-21 Board and Texas Education Agency relating to the marketing and
1-22 advertising of the game.
1-23 (c) The commission shall encourage each ticket sales agent
1-24 that sells tickets to instant-win or similar types of lottery games
2-1 to sell tickets to the lottery game operated under this section.
2-2 (d) The commission may not operate, market, or advertise any
2-3 other lottery game to fund or support a specific program or
2-4 purpose.
2-5 SECTION 2. Section 466.355, Government Code, is amended by
2-6 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
2-7 follows:
2-8 (b) Money in the state lottery account may be used only for
2-9 the following purposes and shall be distributed as follows:
2-10 (1) the payment of prizes to the holders of winning
2-11 tickets;
2-12 (2) the payment of costs incurred in the operation and
2-13 administration of the lottery, including any fees received by a
2-14 lottery operator, provided that the costs incurred in a fiscal
2-15 biennium may not exceed an amount equal to 12 percent of the gross
2-16 revenue accruing from the sale of tickets in that biennium;
2-17 (3) the establishment of a pooled bond fund, lottery
2-18 prize reserve fund, unclaimed prize fund, and prize payment
2-19 account; and
2-20 (4) the balance, after creation of a reserve
2-21 sufficient to pay the amounts needed or estimated to be needed
2-22 under Subdivisions (1) through (3), to be transferred on or before
2-23 the 15th day of each month as follows:
2-24 (A) the portion of the balance attributable to
2-25 the lottery game operated under Section 466.026 to the Hope
2-26 literacy account established by Section 7.025, Education Code; and
2-27 (B) the remainder to the foundation school fund
3-1 [, on or before the 15th day of each month].
3-2 (c) The portion of the balance of the state lottery account
3-3 attributable to the lottery game operated under Section 466.026 for
3-4 each period for which a distribution is made under Subsection (b)
3-5 is an amount equal to the revenue from the sale of tickets to the
3-6 lottery game operated under Section 466.026 for the period less an
3-7 amount calculated by multiplying the total amount deposited to the
3-8 reserve account to pay the amounts needed or estimated to be needed
3-9 for the period under Subsections (b)(1)-(3) by a fraction, the
3-10 numerator of which is the revenue from the sale of tickets to the
3-11 lottery game operated under Section 466.026 for the period and the
3-12 denominator of which is the total revenue from the sale of tickets
3-13 to all lottery games for the period.
3-14 SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 7, Education Code, is
3-15 amended by adding Section 7.025 to read as follows:
3-16 Sec. 7.025. HOPE ADULT LITERACY GRANTS. (a) The Hope adult
3-17 literacy account is established as an account in the general
3-18 revenue fund.
3-19 (b) The Hope adult literacy account consists of:
3-20 (1) money transferred to the account under Section
3-21 466.355, Government Code;
3-22 (2) gifts and grants made to the account;
3-23 (3) amounts appropriated to the account by the
3-24 legislature;
3-25 (4) other money the agency obtains for deposit to the
3-26 account; and
3-27 (5) interest earned on the money in the account.
4-1 (c) The agency may make grants from the interest earned on
4-2 the money in the account to adult literacy programs that the agency
4-3 determines will most effectively use the grant to further adult
4-4 literacy in this state. A grant may be made only to fund a program
4-5 operated by a nonprofit community-based organization approved by
4-6 the agency or by a consortium or association that includes a
4-7 nonprofit community-based organization approved by the agency as a
4-8 principal participant. The agency may not distribute the principal
4-9 of the account.
4-10 (d) The agency shall establish an advisory committee to
4-11 assist the agency in administering this section. The agency shall
4-12 establish the terms of the appointed members of the advisory
4-13 committee. The advisory committee consists of nine members
4-14 selected as follows:
4-15 (1) one representative of the agency designated by the
4-16 commissioner;
4-17 (2) one representative of the Texas Workforce
4-18 Commission designated by the executive director of the commission;
4-19 and
4-20 (3) the following members appointed by the
4-21 commissioner:
4-22 (A) one representative of a statewide coalition
4-23 or association of community-based adult literacy programs, to serve
4-24 as presiding officer of the committee;
4-25 (B) one member representing community-based
4-26 adult literacy organizations in rural areas;
4-27 (C) one member representing community-based
5-1 adult literacy organizations in urban areas;
5-2 (D) two members representing different statewide
5-3 adult literacy organizations;
5-4 (E) one member representing local workforce
5-5 development boards; and
5-6 (F) one member representing the business
5-7 community.
5-8 (e) The agency shall adopt rules for the awarding and
5-9 distribution of grants under this section.
5-10 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
5-11 SECTION 5. (a) The change in law made to Section 466.355,
5-12 Government Code, by this Act applies only to a transfer from the
5-13 state lottery account made on or after the effective date of this
5-14 Act.
5-15 (b) The Texas Lottery Commission shall establish and begin
5-16 selling tickets to the lottery game required by Section 466.026,
5-17 Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1,
5-18 2000.
5-19 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
5-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.