Bill Text: TX HB2027 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the amount of unclaimed lottery prize money to be deposited in the fund for veterans' assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Referred to Appropriations [HB2027 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2027-Introduced.html

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83R7012 YDB-F
By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 2027

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the amount of unclaimed lottery prize money to be
deposited in the fund for veterans' assistance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the
180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize
money shall be used in the following order of priority:
(1) subject to legislative appropriation, not more
than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to or
appropriated from the [Texas] Department of State Health Services
state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, which is
an account in the general revenue fund;
(2) not more than $5 million in prize money each year
may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and
shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital
services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the
Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not
less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal
Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology
for the hospital providing the services;
(3) in each state fiscal year, [the remaining amount,
not to exceed] $5 million in prize money [in each state fiscal year
less any amount deposited in the fund in that year attributable to
the lottery game operated under Section 466.027,] shall be
deposited to the fund for veterans' assistance; and
(4) all prize money subject to this section and not
appropriated or deposited as provided by Subdivision (1), (2), or
(3) [from the Texas Department of Health state-owned
multicategorical teaching hospital account, not appropriated to
the Health and Human Services Commission for the purpose specified
in Subdivision (2), and not deposited under Subdivision (3),] shall
be deposited in the general revenue fund and may be appropriated for
any purpose as determined by the legislature, including the
provision of indigent health care services as specified in Chapter
61, Health and Safety Code.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
466.408(b), Government Code, applies only to a prize for which the
winner is selected on or after the effective date of this Act. A
prize for which the winner was selected before that date is governed
by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of
this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. 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, 2013.