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.)
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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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