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2	2	By: Menéndez S.B. No. 171
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the creation of a lottery game to benefit the child-care
10	10	services program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 466, Government Code, is
13	13	amended by adding Section 466.0265 to read as follows:
14	14	Sec. 466.0265. GAME SUPPORTING TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION
15	15	CHILD-CARE SERVICES PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall operate an
16	16	instant-ticket lottery game to benefit the child-care services
17	17	program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission.
18	18	(b) The commission shall:
19	19	(1) determine the ticket price, payout amounts, and
20	20	manner in which the game is conducted;
21	21	(2) to the extent practicable, continuously make
22	22	available for sale tickets to the game; and
23	23	(3) change the design or theme of the game regularly to
24	24	ensure the game remains competitive with other instant-ticket
25	25	lottery games the commission offers.
26	26	(c) The commission shall market and advertise the lottery
27	27	game operated under this section in a manner intended to inform the
28	28	public the game tickets are available for purchase and the game
29	29	proceeds are used to fund the child-care services program
30	30	administered by the Texas Workforce Commission. The game tickets
31	31	must clearly state the game proceeds are used to benefit the
32	32	child-care services program administered by the Texas Workforce
33	33	Commission. The Texas Workforce Commission may submit
34	34	recommendations to the Texas Lottery Commission relating to the
35	35	marketing and advertising of the game.
36	36	(d) The commission shall encourage each sales agent that
37	37	sells tickets to instant-ticket games or similar types of lottery
38	38	games to sell tickets to the game operated under this section.
39	39	SECTION 2. Section 466.355(b), Government Code, is amended
40	40	to read as follows:
41	41	(b) Money in the state lottery account may be used only for
42	42	the following purposes and shall be distributed as follows:
43	43	(1) the payment of prizes to the holders of winning
44	44	tickets;
45	45	(2) the payment of costs incurred in the operation and
46	46	administration of the lottery, including any fees received by a
47	47	lottery operator, provided that the costs incurred in a fiscal
48	48	biennium may not exceed an amount equal to 12 percent of the gross
49	49	revenue accruing from the sale of tickets in that biennium;
50	50	(3) the establishment of a pooled bond fund, lottery
51	51	prize reserve fund, unclaimed prize fund, and prize payment
52	52	account; and
53	53	(4) the balance, after creation of a reserve
54	54	sufficient to pay the amounts needed or estimated to be needed under
55	55	Subdivisions (1) through (3), to be transferred on or before the
56	56	15th day of each month as follows:
57	57	(A) the portion of the balance attributable to
58	58	the lottery game operated under:
59	59	(i) Section 466.0265 to the general revenue
60	60	fund for appropriation only to fund the child-care services program
61	61	administered by the Texas Workforce Commission; and
62	62	(ii) Section 466.027 to the fund for
63	63	veterans' assistance established by Section 434.017; and
64	64	(B) the remainder to the foundation school fund.
65	65	SECTION 3. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended
66	66	to read as follows:
67	67	(b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the
68	68	180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize
69	69	money shall be used in the following order of priority:
70	70	(1) subject to legislative appropriation, not more
71	71	than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to the
72	72	Department of State Health Services state-owned multicategorical
73	73	teaching hospital account, which is an account in the general
74	74	revenue fund, or appropriated from that account to provide indigent
75	75	health care services as specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety
76	76	Code;
77	77	(2) not more than $5 million in prize money each year
78	78	may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and
79	79	shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital
80	80	services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the
81	81	Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not
82	82	less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal
83	83	Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology
84	84	for the hospital providing the services;
85	85	(3) [the remaining amount,] not more than [to exceed]
86	86	$5 million in prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount
87	87	deposited in the fund in that year attributable to the lottery game
88	88	operated under Section 466.027[,] shall be deposited to the fund
89	89	for veterans' assistance; [and]
90	90	(4) the remaining amount, not to exceed $5 million in
91	91	prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount deposited to
92	92	the general revenue fund under Section 466.355(b)(4)(A)(i) in that
93	93	year attributable to the lottery game operated under Section
94	94	466.0265, shall be deposited to the general revenue fund for
95	95	appropriation only to fund the child-care services program
96	96	administered by the Texas Workforce Commission; and
97	97	(5) all prize money subject to this section and not
98	98	deposited or appropriated in accordance with Subdivision (1), (2),
99	99	[or] (3), or (4) shall be deposited to the credit of the foundation
100	100	school fund.
101	101	SECTION 4. (a) Section 466.355, Government Code, as
102	102	amended by this Act, applies only to a transfer from the state
103	103	lottery account made on or after the effective date of this Act.
104	104	(b) The Texas Lottery Commission shall establish and begin
105	105	selling tickets to the lottery game as required by Section
106	106	466.0265, Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than
107	107	March 2, 2026.
108	108	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.