1 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 6 7 IN RE: ) ) 8 PROPOSED NEW RULE ) TO 16 TAC '401.322 ) 9 TEXAS TRIPLE CHANCE ) LOTTERY GAME RULE ) 10 11 12 13 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING 14 Wednesday, January 8, 2014 15 16 17 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT at 10:35 a.m., on 18 Wednesday, the 8th day of January 2014, the 19 above-entitled matter came on for hearing at the Texas 20 Lottery Commission, 611 East Sixth Street, Commission 21 Auditorium, Austin, Texas, and the following proceedings 22 were reported via machine shorthand by Evelyn Coder, 23 Certified Shorthand Reporter. 24 25 2 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014 3 (10:35 a.m.) 4 MS. RIENSTRA: Okay. I'm going to go on 5 the record and see if I can get through this without 6 coughing. 7 Good morning. The time is 10:35 on 8 Wednesday, January 8th, 2014. My name is Deanne 9 Rienstra, and I am Assistant General Counsel for the 10 Texas Lottery Commission. With me today is Robert 11 Tirloni, products drawing manager for the lottery 12 operations division of the Texas Lottery Commission. 13 The purpose of this hearing is to receive 14 public comments on the proposed new game rule, 16 Texas 15 Administrative Code 401.322, Texas Triple Chance. 16 In addition to this public hearing, the 17 Commission is accepting written comments by mail, email 18 and facsimile. Written comments should be submitted by 19 February 3rd, 2004 -- 2014. 20 The hearing notice was published in the 21 Texas Register on Friday, January 3, 2014. To clarify, 22 the notice of hearing was included in the proposed rule 23 at 39 Texas Register 27 and separately at 39 Texas 24 Register 150. Both notices correctly include today's 25 date, time and location. 3 1 However, the notice at Page 150 2 erroneously notes that today's hearing would receive 3 public comments regarding "proposed amendments" instead 4 of the proposed new rule. I wish to clarify that 5 today's hearing is on the entire new proposed game rule, 6 Texas Triple Chance. 7 The purpose of the proposed new rule is to 8 establish and share with the public the details of the 9 game design, matrix, prize level structure and operation 10 of the proposed new lottery game. 11 We have not received any witness 12 affirmation forms this morning. Therefore, we will take 13 a ten-minute break and resume the hearing. 14 Off the record. 15 (Recess: 10:37 a.m. to 10:47 a.m.) 16 MS. RIENSTRA: Okay. We are back on the 17 record at 10:47. 18 I would also like to include in the record 19 that in order to afford all persons the opportunity to 20 provide a spoken comment, we will have an additional 21 public comment hearing here at the Lottery Commission on 22 Monday, January 27, 2014 at 10 a.m. And that notice 23 will be also published in the Texas Register. 24 Having received no witness affirmation 25 forms, then at this time, which is 10:48, we stand 4 1 adjourned. 2 (Proceedings concluded at 10:48 a.m.) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 5 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 STATE OF TEXAS ) 3 COUNTY OF TRAVIS ) 4 I, Evelyn Coder, a Certified Shorthand 5 Reporter in and for the State of Texas, do hereby 6 certify that the above-mentioned matter occurred as 7 hereinbefore set out. 8 I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT the proceedings 9 of such were reported by me or under my supervision, 10 later reduced to typewritten form under my 11 supervision and control and that the foregoing pages 12 are a full, true and correct transcription of the 13 original notes. 14 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 15 hand and seal this 17th day of January 2014. 16 17 18 _________________________________ 19 EVELYN CODER Certified Shorthand Reporter 20 CSR No. 2845-Expires 12/31/15 21 Firm Registration No. 276 Kennedy Reporting Service, Inc. 22 1016 La Posada Drive Suite 294 23 Austin, Texas 78752 512.474.2233 24 25 Job No. 115277