Bill Text: TX HB1270 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain unclaimed lottery prize money.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-25 - Referred to Appropriations [HB1270 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1270-Introduced.html

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83R5518 YDB-F
By: Martinez Fischer H.B. No. 1270

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain unclaimed lottery prize money.
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, or appropriated from that
account to provide indigent health care services as specified in
Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code;
(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) 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
deposited or appropriated in accordance with [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 (1), (2), or
[and not deposited under Subdivision] (3)[,] shall be deposited to
the credit of the foundation school [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. Section 466.408(b), Government Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to a prize for which the winner is
selected on or after September 1, 2013. A prize for which the winner
was selected before September 1, 2013, 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 September 1, 2013.