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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