This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.

                                                                                



                                                                  H.B. No. 1401




AN ACT

relating to the implementation of Amber Alert or another system for 
publicly disseminating emergency information about abducted 
children by the Texas Lottery Commission.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 466, Government Code, is 
amended by adding Section 466.026 to read as follows:
	Sec. 466.026.  AMBER ALERT. On receipt of notice by the 
Department of Public Safety that the Statewide Texas Amber Alert 
Network has been activated, the commission shall disseminate Amber 
Alert information at its retail locations through the lottery 
operator system.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




______________________________              ______________________________
 
   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1401 was passed by the House on April 
10, 2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1401 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



APPROVED:  _____________________                                            
 
                   Date                                                      




 
          _____________________                                          
 
                 Governor