BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1555

By: Kuempel

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

Interested parties note that the types of businesses at which a majority of lottery sales are conducted are increasingly expanding their business operations to include food and beverage service areas that require a wine and beer retailer's permit. C.S.H.B. 1555 seeks to address this trend and allow a location for which a person holds such a permit to be an eligible location at which to conduct lottery sales so long as the location derives less than 30 percent of its gross receipts from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1555 amends the Government Code to exclude a location for which a person holds a wine and beer retailer's permit that derives less than 30 percent of the location's gross receipts from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages from the locations whose use as a sales agency location by an applicant for or holder of a state lottery sales agent license triggers, on an applicable finding, a requirement for the director of the lottery division of the Texas Lottery Commission to deny the application or for the commission to suspend or revoke the license.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2017.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 1555 differs from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways by conforming to certain bill drafting conventions.