Bill Text: TX SB1820 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 1820

Bill Title: Relating to the prohibited play and facilitation of play of a lottery game by telephone or through the Internet.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-18 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [SB1820 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1820-Engrossed.html



	By: Hall	S.B. No. 1820


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the prohibited play and facilitation of play of a
	lottery game by telephone or through the Internet.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 466.015, Government Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-2) to read as
	follows:
	(b) The commission shall adopt rules to the extent they are
	not inconsistent with Chapters 551 and 552 governing the:
	(1) security for the lottery and the commission,
	including the development of an internal security plan;
	(2) apportionment of the total revenues from the sale
	of tickets and from all other sources in the amounts provided by
	this chapter;
	(3) enforcement of prohibitions on the sale of tickets
	to or by an individual younger than 18 years of age; and
	(4) enforcement of prohibitions on a person playing or
	facilitating the playing of a lottery game by telephone or through
	the Internet.
	(b-2) For purposes of this section, a person:
	(1) plays a lottery game by telephone or through the
	Internet if the person, by telephone or through an Internet
	application or mobile Internet application:
	(A) orders or purchases a ticket for the game; or
	(B) arranges for another person to purchase a
	ticket on behalf of the person playing the game; and
	(2) facilitates the playing of a lottery game by
	telephone or through the Internet if the person, by telephone or
	through an Internet application or mobile Internet application:
	(A) accepts orders for or sells a ticket for the
	game; or
	(B) arranges to purchase or for another person to
	purchase a ticket on behalf of the person playing the game.
	SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2024, the Texas Lottery
	Commission shall adopt or amend rules as necessary to implement the
	changes in law made by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.