S.B. 6 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


S.B. 6
By: Van de Putte
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, Texas law provides that a lottery ticket holder forfeits any
claim or entitlement to a prize after 180 days after the date on which the
winning numbers were selected or after the end of the game, in the case of
an instant scratch-off ticket. As proposed, S.B. 6 extends for certain
military personnel the period in which a lottery prize may be claimed.  


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 

ANALYSIS

Amends Section 466.408, Government Code, by amending Subsection (d) and
adding Subsections (e)-(h), as follows:  
(d) Includes a reference to the exemptions set forth in Subsection (e). 
(e) Authorizes an eligible person serving on active military duty in any
branch of the United States armed forces during a war or national
emergency declared in accordance with federal law to claim a lottery prize
not later than the 90th day after the date on which the earliest of
certain situations occurs.  
(f) Authorizes the Texas Lottery Commission to deduct money paid to an
eligible person under Subsection (e) from prize money that would otherwise
be deposited under Subsection (b).  
(g) Defines what is considered active duty. 
(h) Defines "eligible person." 


EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2003.