By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 2509

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2009; April 27, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 6, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 6, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the payment of a lottery prize awarded to a minor.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 466.405(b) and (e), Government Code, are amended to read as follows:

(b) If a minor is entitled to prize money on a winning ticket in an amount of $600 or more, the director may direct payment to the minor by depositing the amount of the prize in any financial institution [bank] to the credit of an adult member of the minor's family or of the minor's guardian as custodian for the minor.

(e) In this section:

(1) "Adult" means an individual who is at least 18 years of age.

(2) "Custodian," "financial institution," [, "adult," "bank," "custodian,"] "guardian," and "member of the [a] minor's family," [and "minor"] have the meanings assigned by Section 141.002, Property Code.

(3) "Minor" means an individual who is younger than 18 years of age.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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