1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 16 TEXAS ADMINISTRATIVE CODE § 6 §401.315 § 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 2:00 p.m. to 2:17 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 (2:00 p.m.) 4 MR. WASSDORF: Good afternoon. My name is 5 Pete Wassdorf. I'm an Assistant General Counsel in the 6 Legal Services Division of the Texas Lottery Commission. 7 At the meeting of the Texas Lottery Commission held on 8 September 10th, 2010, the Commissioners proposed 9 amendments to Texas Administrative Code at 16 TAC 10 401.315 relating to the Mega Millions online game rules. 11 At that time, the Commissioner directed that a public 12 comment hearing be set on October 14th, 2010 at 2:00 13 p.m. in the auditorium of the Texas Lottery Commission. 14 The proposed amendments and the date and 15 time of this public hearing were published for notice 16 and comment in the Texas Register at Volume 35, 17 Page 8637 on September 24th, 2010. The purpose of this 18 hearing is to accept public comment on the proposed 19 rules. I hereby convene this hearing and will accept 20 public comment on behalf of the Commissioners. 21 Let the record reflect that the time is 22 two minutes after 2:00 and that no members of the public 23 are in attendance at this time. I will recess the 24 hearing for 15 minutes to give anyone that might be 25 inadvertently delayed an opportunity to arrive. The 5 1 hearing will reconvene in 15 minutes at 2:17. Thank 2 you. 3 (Recess: 2:00 p.m. to 2:17 p.m.) 4 MR. WASSDORF: Okay. It's 2:17, and we'll 5 reconvene the public hearing on the proposed rules at 16 6 TAC 401.315, and no members of the public have appeared 7 or requested an opportunity to comment, and therefore we 8 will adjourn this meeting for the day. Thank you very 9 much. 10 (Proceedings concluded at 2:17 p.m.) 11 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 11 such were reported by or under my supervision, later 12 reduced to typewritten form under my supervision and 13 control and that the foregoing pages are a full, true 14 and correct 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