1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE 2 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION AUSTIN, TEXAS 3 4 16 TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE § 5 §401.315 § 6 7 8 PUBLIC HEARING ON RULEMAKINGS 9 TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010 10 11 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT on Tuesday, 12 the 29th day of June 2010, the above-entitled public 13 comment hearing was held from 10:00 a.m. to 10:10 a.m., 14 at the Offices of the Texas Lottery Commission, 611 East 15 6th Street, Austin, Texas 78701, before PETE WASSDORF, 16 ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL. The following proceedings 17 were reported via machine shorthand by Lorrie A. 18 Schnoor, a Certified Shorthand Reporter of the State of 19 Texas, RMR, TCRR, and the following proceedings were 20 had: 21 22 23 24 25 2 1 APPEARANCES 2 ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL: 3 Mr. Pete Wassdorf 4 PRODUCTS MANAGER: Mr. Robert Tirloni 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 PAGE 3 PROCEEDINGS - TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010.............. 4 4 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE............................ 6 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010 3 (10:00 a.m.) 4 MR. WASSDORF: Good morning. On May 25th, 5 the Commission proposed amendments to 16 TAC Section 6 401.315 relating to the Mega Millions online game rules. 7 The purposes of the proposed amendments are to comply 8 with the understanding of the multi-jurisdictional 9 participants on the operation of the game, to clarify 10 existing provisions, to delete obsolete or redundant 11 provisions, to authorize a nonmultiplied guaranteed 12 second-tier prize when a Mega Million option is 13 purchased, to authorize a special Megaplier promotion, 14 to initiate each Mega Millions game with a $12 million 15 guaranteed grand jackpot prize, and to provide that 16 thereafter as the grand jackpot prize is incrementally 17 increased, it would be on an estimated grand jackpot 18 amount based on actual sales. 19 The proposed rules were published in the 20 June 11th, 2010 edition of the Texas Register for public 21 comment, and a notice of public hearing was published in 22 the June 18th, 2010 edition of the Texas Register for 23 hearing on today, June 29th at 10 a.m. at this location. 24 Both the proposed rules and the notice of public hearing 25 were also published on the Commission's website. 5 1 The appointed date and time of the noticed 2 public hearing having arrived, I hereby convene such 3 public hearing and note that there are no members of the 4 public in attendance today. We will adjourn the meeting 5 temporarily for ten minutes to allow any late arrivals 6 and then we will reconvene. Thank you. 7 (Recess: 10:01 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.) 8 MR. WASSDORF: The time is 10 minutes 9 after 10:00, and we're reconvening the public hearing 10 relating to the Mega Millions online game rules. And no 11 member of the public has appeared to give testimony with 12 respect to this issue, and therefore we will adjourn 13 this meeting for the day. Thank you. 14 (Proceedings concluded at 10:10 a.m.) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 STATE OF TEXAS ) 3 COUNTY OF TRAVIS ) 4 I, Lorrie A. Schnoor, Certified Shorthand 5 Reporter in and for the State of Texas, Registered Merit 6 Reporter and Texas Certified Realtime Reporter, do 7 hereby certify that the above-mentioned matter occurred 8 as hereinbefore set out. 9 I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT the proceedings of such 10 were reported by me or under my supervision, later 11 reduced to typewritten form under my supervision and 12 control and that the foregoing pages are a full, true, 13 and correct transcription of the original notes. 14 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 15 hand and seal this 8th day of July 2010. 16 17 _______________________________ LORRIE A. SCHNOOR, RMR, TCRR 18 Certified Shorthand Reporter CSR No. 4642 - Expires 12/31/11 19 Firm Registration No. 276 20 Kennedy Reporting Service, Inc. Cambridge Tower 21 1801 Lavaca Street, Suite 115 Austin, Texas 78701 22 512.474.2233 23 24 25