NexStar – the Sunseet review could not have come in a worse time for the TLC lottery (TLC). While TLC was included by USA TODAY AS One of the best places to work in 2025In September, no one will work there.
Sunset Review is a process of most state departments every 12 years. During the review, the legislature must renew the administration or stop existence. But in this case, the legislative body kills TLC.
Saturday night, the Texas house approved a modified version of Senate Bill 3070Which cancels TLC and delivers control of the Texas and Bango charitable lottery to the Ministry of Licensing and Organization in Texas (TDLR). The decision comes amid a set of scandals for the committee, which led to investigations from both Texas Rangers and the Prosecutor’s Office.
Changes from the Senate
While the Senate SB 3070 acknowledged unanimously, the sponsor of the House of Representatives, Charlie Gereen, re-written the bill based on the talks with TDLR.
Each draft law calls for the TDLR to be subjected to a review of the sunset to see how it works under the new section. However, the issuance of the Senate called for a full review in 2027, while the House of Representatives calls for a review in 2029. In addition, the proposed review scope of the house is more closely related to determining whether TDLR is the best house for a lottery, and to determine if
Both issues call for the end of mobile lottery applications, however, the Texas house removed a ruling from the Senate, which required TDLR to spread minutes and guests list for all official or informal meetings regarding contracting, purchasing or making policy in the lottery. The Senate added this language after a lawsuit claimed that the former TLC officials worked with Course Services to think the best ways to implement mobile application applications.
GEREN also stripped a item that prohibits automatic renovations of the contracts that were entered into TLC before the transfer was officially on September 1.
The most interesting, that the Texas house removed a item that allows the ruler, the upright ruler, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or the public prosecutor to act as a lottery investigator. The language was added to the Senate version after the angle of the winners in the field of retail – related to mobile applications – refused to allow the Dan Patrick to search the number of lottery stations that they had in their background.
What next
On Monday, the SB 3070 house is likely to hear a third reading. If it passes, it will be sent to the Senate in Texas, where they can either approve the changes or specify the disputed judgments that must remain in the final draft law. In both cases, the elements that the two sides agreed will be sent to the governor of Gregbout to sign.
If he signs, the lottery will get this summer to move to TDLR before the TLC is canceled on September 1. Because TLC is up to sunset anyway, Abbott Veto still means that TLC has been canceled on September 1, but the Texas lottery will go with it.
A representative of TLC said in a statement, “Ensuring integrity, security, honesty, fairness to the agency and its games are the maximum priority of the TLC lottery.”