Bill Text: TX HB3431 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on lottery advertisement and promotion in certain low income counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB3431 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3431-Introduced.html
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| By: Sanford | H.B. No. 3431 | |
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| relating to a prohibition on lottery advertisement and promotion in | ||
| certain low income counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 466.110, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 466.110. PROHIBITED ADVERTISEMENTS. (a) The | ||
| legislature intends that advertisements or promotions sponsored by | ||
| the commission or the division for the lottery not be of a nature | ||
| that unduly influences any person to purchase a lottery ticket or | ||
| number. | ||
| (b) The commission or a lottery operator may not advertise | ||
| or promote the lottery in a county with a per capita income at or | ||
| below 150 percent of the federal poverty level. | ||
| (c) A sales agent operating in a county described by | ||
| Subsection (b) may advertise or promote the lottery within the | ||
| sales agent's place of business. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
