By: Hughes, Bettencourt S.B. No. 1346

(In the Senate - Filed February 18, 2025; March 6, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; March 17, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1346 By: Paxton

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 466, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 466.1555 to read as follows:

Sec. 466.1555. PROHIBITED SALES TO PERSONS ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE ALL OR SUBSTANTIALLY ALL POSSIBLE WINNING LOTTERY TICKETS. (a) A sales agent may not knowingly sell or allow the sale of tickets for a lottery game involving a drawing to one or more persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets for the drawing.

(b) After a hearing, the commission shall revoke a license issued under this chapter to a sales agent who violates Subsection (a) for each of the sales agent's licensed locations.

(c) A person whose license is revoked under Subsection (b) may not apply for a sales agent license under this chapter before the first anniversary of the license revocation date.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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