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2003S0049-1 01/09/03


By:  West                                                         S.B. No. 178


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the disposition of unclaimed prize money by the Texas 
Lottery Commission.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 466.408, Government 
Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the 
180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize 
money shall be deposited into an account to be administered by [to 
the credit of] the [Texas Department of] Health and Human Services 
Commission [state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account 
or the tertiary care facility account as follows:
		[(1)  not more than $40 million in prize money each 
biennium may be deposited to or appropriated from the Texas 
Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching 
hospital account, which is an account in the general revenue fund; 
and
		(2)  all prize money subject to this section in excess 
of $40 million each biennium shall be deposited in the tertiary care 
facility account.  Money deposited in the tertiary care facility 
account may only be appropriated to the department for purposes 
specified in Chapter 46 or 61, Health and Safety Code].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.