By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 616
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the financial obligations of the state under a contract
 1-2     between the Texas Lottery Commission and a lottery operator.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 466.003, Government Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  A contract between the division and a lottery operator
 1-7     under Section 466.014(b) must contain a provision allowing the
 1-8     contract to be terminated without penalty should the division be
 1-9     abolished [terminate on or before September 1, 2004].
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.