Bill Text: TX HB1555 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of lottery tickets by certain wine and beer retailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective immediately [HB1555 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1555-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of lottery tickets by certain wine and beer retailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective immediately [HB1555 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1555-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) | H.B. No. 1555 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2017; | ||
May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 10, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
|
||
|
||
relating to the sale of lottery tickets by certain wine and beer | ||
retailers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 466.155(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) After a hearing, the director shall deny an application | ||
for a license or the commission shall suspend or revoke a license if | ||
the director or commission, as applicable, finds that the applicant | ||
or sales agent: | ||
(1) is an individual who: | ||
(A) has been convicted of a felony, criminal | ||
fraud, gambling or a gambling-related offense, or a misdemeanor | ||
involving moral turpitude, if less than 10 years has elapsed since | ||
the termination of the sentence, parole, mandatory supervision, or | ||
probation served for the offense; | ||
(B) is or has been a professional gambler; | ||
(C) is married to an individual: | ||
(i) described in Paragraph (A) or (B); or | ||
(ii) who is currently delinquent in the | ||
payment of any state tax; | ||
(D) is an officer or employee of the commission | ||
or a lottery operator; or | ||
(E) is a spouse, child, brother, sister, or | ||
parent residing as a member of the same household in the principal | ||
place of residence of a person described by Paragraph (D); | ||
(2) is not an individual, and an individual described | ||
in Subdivision (1): | ||
(A) is an officer or director of the applicant or | ||
sales agent; | ||
(B) holds more than 10 percent of the stock in the | ||
applicant or sales agent; | ||
(C) holds an equitable interest greater than 10 | ||
percent in the applicant or sales agent; | ||
(D) is a creditor of the applicant or sales agent | ||
who holds more than 10 percent of the applicant's or sales agent's | ||
outstanding debt; | ||
(E) is the owner or lessee of a business that the | ||
applicant or sales agent conducts or through which the applicant | ||
will conduct a ticket sales agency; | ||
(F) shares or will share in the profits, other | ||
than stock dividends, of the applicant or sales agent; or | ||
(G) participates in managing the affairs of the | ||
applicant or sales agent; | ||
(3) has been finally determined to be: | ||
(A) delinquent in the payment of a tax or other | ||
money collected by the comptroller, the Texas Workforce Commission, | ||
or the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission; | ||
(B) in default on a loan made under Chapter 52, | ||
Education Code; or | ||
(C) in default on a loan guaranteed under Chapter | ||
57, Education Code; | ||
(4) is a person whose location for the sales agency is: | ||
(A) a location licensed for games of bingo under | ||
Chapter 2001, Occupations Code; | ||
(B) on land that is owned by: | ||
(i) this state; or | ||
(ii) a political subdivision of this state | ||
and on which is located a public primary or secondary school, an | ||
institution of higher education, or an agency of the state; or | ||
(C) a location for which a person holds a wine and | ||
beer retailer's permit, mixed beverage permit, mixed beverage late | ||
hours permit, private club registration permit, or private club | ||
late hours permit issued under Chapter 25, 28, 29, 32, or 33, | ||
Alcoholic Beverage Code, other than a location for which a person | ||
holds a wine and beer retailer's permit issued under Chapter 25, | ||
Alcoholic Beverage Code, that derives less than 30 percent of the | ||
location's gross receipts from the sale or service of alcoholic | ||
beverages; or | ||
(5) has violated this chapter or a rule adopted under | ||
this chapter. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
* * * * * |