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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to certain unclaimed lottery prize money. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended |
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to read as follows: |
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(b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the |
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180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize |
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money shall be used in the following order of priority: |
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(1) subject to legislative appropriation, not more |
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than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to [or
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appropriated from] the [Texas] Department of State Health Services |
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state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, which is |
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an account in the general revenue fund, or appropriated from that |
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account to provide indigent health care services as specified in |
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Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code; |
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(2) not more than $5 million in prize money each year |
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may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and |
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shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital |
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services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the |
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Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not |
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less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal |
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Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology |
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for the hospital providing the services; |
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(3) the remaining amount, not to exceed $5 million in |
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prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount deposited in |
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the fund in that year attributable to the lottery game operated |
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under Section 466.027, shall be deposited to the fund for veterans' |
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assistance; and |
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(4) all prize money subject to this section and not |
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deposited or appropriated in accordance with [from the Texas
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Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching
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hospital account, not appropriated to the Health and Human Services
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Commission for the purpose specified in] Subdivision (1), (2), or |
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[and not deposited under Subdivision] (3)[,] shall be deposited to |
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the credit of the foundation school [in the general revenue] fund |
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[and may be appropriated for any purpose as determined by the
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legislature, including the provision of indigent health care
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services as specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code]. |
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SECTION 2. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, as amended |
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by this Act, applies only to a prize for which the winner is |
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selected on or after September 1, 2013. A prize for which the winner |
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was selected before September 1, 2013, is governed by the law as it |
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existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that |
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law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |