1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 16 TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE § 6 §401.308 § 7 8 9 PUBLIC HEARING ON RULEMAKINGS 10 Thursday, October 14, 2010 11 12 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT on Thursday, 13 the 14th day of October 2010, the above-entitled public 14 comment hearing was held from 1:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m., at 15 the Offices of the Texas Lottery Commission, 611 East 16 6th Street, Austin, Texas 78701, before PETE WASSDORF, 17 ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL. The following proceedings 18 were reported via machine shorthand by Suzanne Zimmer, a 19 Certified Shorthand Reporter of the State of Texas, and 20 the following proceedings were had: 21 22 23 24 25 2 1 APPEARANCES 2 ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL: 3 Mr. Pete Wassdorf 4 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 - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 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 Thursday, October 14, 2010 3 (1:00 p.m.) 4 MR. WASSDORF: Good afternoon. My name is 5 Pete Wassdorf, W-a-s-s-d-o-r-f. I'm an Assistant 6 General Counsel in the Legal Services Division of the 7 Texas Lottery Commission. At the meeting of the Texas 8 Lottery Commission held on September 10th, 2010, the 9 Commissioners proposed certain amendments to Texas 10 Administrative Code at 16 TAC §401.308 relating to the 11 Cash Five online game rules. 12 At that time, the Commissioner directed 13 that a public comment hearing be set on October 14th, 14 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the Texas Lottery 15 Commission. The proposed amendments and the date and 16 time of this public hearing were published for notice 17 and comment in the Texas Register at Volume 35, 18 Page 8635, on September 24th, 2010. 19 The purpose of this hearing is to accept 20 public comment on the proposed rules, and I hereby 21 convene this public hearing and will accept public 22 comment on behalf of the Commissioners. Let the record 23 reflect that the time is now five minutes after 1:00 and 24 that no members of the public are in attendance at this 25 time. I will recess the hearing for 15 minutes to give 5 1 anyone that might inadvertently be delayed an 2 opportunity to arrive. The hearing will reconvene at 3 1:20 p.m. Thank you. 4 (Recess: 1:05 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.) 5 MR. WASSDORF: Okay. We're back on the 6 record now and the time is 1:20 p.m. No member of the 7 public has arrived or signed up to make any public 8 comment. And so we're going to adjourn this meeting, 9 and there will be another meeting at 2 o'clock on 10 another rule. Thank you. 11 (Proceedings concluded at 1:20 p.m.) 12 13 14 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 3 STATE OF TEXAS ) 4 COUNTY OF TRAVIS ) 5 6 I, SUZANNE ZIMMER, a Certified Shorthand 7 Reporter in and for the State of Texas, do hereby 8 certify that the above-mentioned matter occurred as 9 hereinbefore set out. 10 I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT the proceedings of such 11 were reported by or under my supervision, later reduced 12 to typewritten form under my supervision and control and 13 that the foregoing pages are a full, true and correct 14 transcription of the original notes. 15 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 16 hand and seal this 21st day of October 2010. 17 18 _________________________________ 19 SUZANNE ZIMMER Certified Shorthand Reporter 20 CSR No. 8323-Expires 12/31/10 21 Firm Registration No. 276 Kennedy Reporting Service, Inc. 22 Cambridge Tower 1801 Lavaca Street, Suite 115 23 Austin, Texas 78701 512.474.2233 24 25