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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 616 passed the Senate on
March 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 616 passed the House on
May 22, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor