1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 616
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 19, 1999; February 22, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
 1-4     March 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the financial obligations of the state under a contract
 1-9     between the Texas Lottery Commission and a lottery operator.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 466.003, Government Code,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  A contract between the division and a lottery operator
1-14     under Section 466.014(b) must contain a provision allowing the
1-15     contract to be terminated without penalty should the division be
1-16     abolished [terminate on or before September 1, 2004].
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.
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