Bill Text: TX SB397 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the marketing and advertising of the veterans' assistance lottery game.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB397 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB397-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 397 | |
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| relating to the marketing and advertising of the veterans' | ||
| assistance lottery game. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 466.027, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (d-1) and (f) and amending Subsection (e) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (d-1) The commission shall produce and place printed | ||
| point-of-sale advertising materials promoting the lottery game | ||
| operated under this section at each licensed location that provides | ||
| appropriate, lottery-dedicated space to display the materials. | ||
| (e) The commission shall include on the commission's | ||
| Internet website a dedicated page that: | ||
| (1) features the game operated under this section; | ||
| (2) provides information on the benefits provided to | ||
| veterans through funding from the game; and | ||
| (3) is accessible by a prominent link on the main page | ||
| of the commission's website. | ||
| (f) No organization that would otherwise be eligible to | ||
| receive funds from the state lottery account attributable to any | ||
| lottery game authorized by this section may receive any such funds | ||
| if it conducts illegal gambling or the illegal operation of | ||
| gambling devices as defined by Chapter 47, Penal Code, or allows | ||
| illegal gambling or the illegal operation of gambling devices to be | ||
| conducted on its property or in its facilities. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
