Bill Text: TX SB1097 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to funding for apprenticeship training programs through a lottery game.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-07 - Referred to Finance [SB1097 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1097-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1097 | |
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| relating to funding for apprenticeship training programs through a | ||
| lottery game. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 466, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 466.0271 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 466.0271. APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING PROGRAM GAME. (a) | ||
| The commission shall operate an instant-ticket lottery game to | ||
| benefit apprenticeship training programs funded under Chapter 133, | ||
| Education Code. | ||
| (b) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) determine the ticket price, payout amounts, and | ||
| manner in which the game is conducted; | ||
| (2) make tickets to the game available for sale | ||
| continuously to the extent practicable; and | ||
| (3) change the design or theme of the game regularly to | ||
| ensure that the game remains competitive with other instant-ticket | ||
| lottery games offered by the commission. | ||
| (c) The commission shall market and advertise the lottery | ||
| game operated under this section in a manner intended to inform the | ||
| public that the game tickets are available for purchase and that the | ||
| game proceeds are used to fund apprenticeship training programs in | ||
| this state. The Texas Workforce Commission may make | ||
| recommendations to the Texas Lottery Commission relating to the | ||
| marketing and advertising of the game. | ||
| (d) The commission shall encourage each sales agent that | ||
| sells tickets to instant-ticket games or similar types of lottery | ||
| games to sell tickets to the game operated under this section. | ||
| (e) An organization otherwise eligible to receive money | ||
| from the state lottery account attributable to a lottery game | ||
| authorized by this section may not receive the money if the | ||
| organization conducts illegal gambling or operates illegal | ||
| gambling devices as defined by Chapter 47, Penal Code, or allows the | ||
| conduct of illegal gambling or the operation of illegal gambling | ||
| devices on its property or in its facilities. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 466.355(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) Money in the state lottery account may be used only for | ||
| the following purposes and shall be distributed as follows: | ||
| (1) the payment of prizes to the holders of winning | ||
| tickets; | ||
| (2) the payment of costs incurred in the operation and | ||
| administration of the lottery, including any fees received by a | ||
| lottery operator, provided that the costs incurred in a fiscal | ||
| biennium may not exceed an amount equal to 12 percent of the gross | ||
| revenue accruing from the sale of tickets in that biennium; | ||
| (3) the establishment of a pooled bond fund, lottery | ||
| prize reserve fund, unclaimed prize fund, and prize payment | ||
| account; and | ||
| (4) the balance, after creation of a reserve | ||
| sufficient to pay the amounts needed or estimated to be needed under | ||
| Subdivisions (1) through (3), to be transferred on or before the | ||
| 15th day of each month as follows: | ||
| (A) the portion of the balance attributable to | ||
| the lottery game operated under Section 466.027 to the fund for | ||
| veterans' assistance established by Section 434.017; [ |
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| (B) the portion of the balance attributable to | ||
| the lottery game under Section 466.0271 to an account in the general | ||
| revenue fund to be appropriated to the Texas Workforce Commission | ||
| to support apprenticeship training programs in accordance with | ||
| Chapter 133, Education Code; and | ||
| (C) the remainder to the foundation school fund. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Section 466.355(b), Government Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies only to a transfer from the state | ||
| lottery account made on or after January 1, 2018. | ||
| (b) The Texas Lottery Commission shall establish and begin | ||
| selling tickets to the lottery game as required by Section | ||
| 466.0271, Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than | ||
| January 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. | ||
