82R2435 KLA-D
 
  By: Davis S.B. No. 1344
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the dedication of certain unclaimed state lottery prize
  money to support education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 466.408(b), 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 used in the following order of priority:
               (1)  subject to legislative appropriation, not more
  than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to or
  appropriated from the [Texas] Department of State Health Services
  state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, which is
  an account in the general revenue fund;
               (2)  not more than $5 million in prize money each year
  may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and
  shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital
  services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the
  Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not
  less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal
  Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology
  for the hospital providing the services;
               (3)  the remaining amount, not to exceed $5 million in
  prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount deposited in
  the fund in that year attributable to the lottery game operated
  under Section 466.027, shall be deposited to the fund for veterans'
  assistance; and
               (4)  all prize money subject to this section and not
  appropriated in accordance with [from the Texas Department of
  Health state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, not
  appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission for the
  purpose specified in] Subdivision (1) or (2), and not deposited
  under Subdivision (3), shall be deposited to the credit of the
  foundation school fund [in the general revenue fund and may be
  appropriated for any purpose as determined by the legislature,
  including the provision of indigent health care services as
  specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.