1 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 6 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING ON § 7 PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO § 16 TAC §401.158 (SUSPENSION OR § 8 REVOCATION OF LICENSE) AND § §401.160 (STANDARD PENALTY § 9 CHART) § 10 11 12 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING 13 TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014 14 15 16 17 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT on Tuesday, the 22nd day of 18 July 2014, the Texas Lottery Commission meeting was held 19 from 10:04 a.m. until 10:10 a.m., at the offices of the 20 Texas Lottery Commission, 611 East 6th Street, Austin, 21 Texas 78701. The following proceedings were reported 22 via machine shorthand by Lorrie A. Schnoor, Certified 23 Shorthand Reporter, Registered Merit Reporter, Certified 24 Realtime Reporter and Texas Certified Realtime Reporter. 25 2 1 APPEARANCES 2 ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL: 3 Ms. Lea Burnett 4 RETAILER SERVICES SUPERVISOR: 5 Mr. David Veselka 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014 3 (10:04 a.m.) 4 MS. BURNETT: Good morning. My name is 5 Lea Burnett. I'm an Assistant General Counsel for the 6 Texas Lottery Commission. It is about 10:04 on 7 July 22nd, 2014. We are here this morning to receive 8 public comments for proposed amendments to Texas Lottery 9 Commission Rules 16 Texas Administrative Code Sections 10 401.158 and 401.160. I also have with me David Veselka, 11 who is our Retailer Services Supervisor. 12 The Commission voted to propose these 13 amendments at its public meeting held on June 23rd, 14 2014. The proposed amendments, along with the notice of 15 this hearing, were published in the July 4th, 2014, 16 issue of the Texas Register and on the Commission's 17 website. 18 In addition to this public comment 19 hearing, the Commission is accepting written comments by 20 mail, by email, and facsimile. Written comments are due 21 by August 4th, 2014. 22 So far, I have no written affirmation 23 forms, nor does it appear that anyone other than Texas 24 Lottery Commission staff are present. At this point I'm 25 going to pause the record for a moment and see if we 4 1 have any other attendees who might like to perform -- 2 who would like to provide comment. 3 Also, I would note for the record that the 4 Commission's website noted that a public hearing on the 5 MONOPOLYŽ rules for a new game that we are proposing was 6 to be scheduled at 10 a.m. That hearing is actually at 7 11 a.m., and if there's anybody present who'd like to 8 provide comment on that rule, please let me know and 9 we'll make sure to delay those proceedings or to allow 10 you to do that at the following hearing. Is there 11 anybody here in the audience? 12 (No response) 13 MS. BURNETT: No. Okay. Then I will 14 pause the record for a moment to see if we receive any 15 other attendees. 16 (Recess: 10:04 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.) 17 MS. BURNETT: Back on the record, please. 18 It is approximately 10 after 10:00 on July 22nd. 19 As I noted in my introductory comments, we 20 are here to receive public comment for proposed 21 amendments to Texas Lottery Commission rules. I have no 22 written affirmation forms that anyone would like to 23 speak. Once again, is there anybody here who would like 24 to provide comment on those rules? 25 (No response) 5 1 MS. BURNETT: Okay. With no one 2 apparently present for that to provide public comment, I 3 would like to thank everyone who attended today's 4 hearing, and the hearing is now adjourned. 5 (Proceedings concluded at 10:10 a.m.) 6 7 8 9 10 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 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, Certified Realtime Reporter and Texas 7 Certified Realtime Reporter, do hereby certify that the 8 above-mentioned matter occurred 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 hand 15 and seal this 30th day of July, 2014. 16 17 _________________________________ LORRIE A. SCHNOOR, RMR, CRR, TCRR 18 Certified Shorthand Reporter CSR No. 4642 - Expires 12/31/15 19 Firm Registration No. 276 20 Kennedy Reporting Service, Inc. 7800 North Mopac, Suite 120 21 Austin, Texas 78759 512.474.2233 22 23 24 25