0001 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING ON LOTTO TEXAS ON-LINE GAME RULE 6 7 8 9 10 NOVEMBER 8, 2017 11 9:30 a.m. 12 AT 13 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 611 East 6th Street 14 Austin, Texas 78701 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Proceedings reported by electronic sound recording; transcript prepared by Verbatim Reporting & Transcription 25 LLC. 0002 1 APPEARANCES 2 ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL: Ryan Mindell 3 PRODUCTS & DRAWINGS MANAGER, LOTTERY OPERATIONS DIVISION: Robert Tirloni 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0003 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 MR. MINDELL: All right. Go on record. Good 3 morning. The time is 9:32 on Wednesday, November 8th, 2017. 4 My name is Ryan Mindell, I'm Assistant General Counsel for 5 the Texas Lottery Commission. With me today is Robert 6 Tirloni, Products and Drawings Manager of the Lottery 7 Operations Division of the Texas Lottery Commission. 8 The purpose of this hearing is to receive 9 public comment on the proposed amendments to the "Lotto 10 Texas" On-Line Game Rule 16 TAC §401.305. In addition to 11 this public comment hearing, the Commission is accepting 12 written comments by mail, email, and facsimile. Written 13 comments should be submitted no later than Monday, November 14 20th, 2017. 15 This hearing notice was published in the Texas 16 Register on Friday, October 20th, 2017 at 42 TexReg 5773. 17 The purpose of the proposed amendments is to add Lotto Texas 18 Winner Take All, a promotional play option the player may 19 purchase for an additional one dollar, which will give the 20 player the chance to win the Lotto Texas Winner Take All 21 prize during bonus drawings. 22 The bonus drawings for this promotion will be 23 held on Mondays and Thursdays. The single prize, based upon 24 the sales of the promotional play feature will be divided 25 equally among all holders of winning plays. The Commission 0004 1 anticipates the new Lotto Texas Winner Take All promotion to 2 be implemented April 15th, 2018. 3 The proposed amendments also include language 4 to facilitate the potential future sale of lottery tickets 5 using Commission-approved third-party point-of-sale systems, 6 including updating how tickets are printed on such systems. 7 Finally, the proposed amendments make 8 conforming changes that match rule language to current 9 Commission (and industry) practice and terminology, including 10 changing the reference to the Lotto Texas game from "on-line" 11 to "draw" and other clarifications of meanings and terms. 12 The proposed amendments that will be submitted to 13 the commission for adoption on December 7th may include non- 14 substantive changes, including the final decision as to the 15 drawing dates for the Lotto Texas Winner Take All drawings. 16 The Lotto Texas Winner Take All promotion will be consistent 17 with the Powerball Winner Take All promotion. 18 The MUSL Directors are currently still making 19 small non-substantive changes to the drawing dates to which a 20 qualifying Winner Take All play will apply. At this time we 21 have not received any witness affirmation forms. 22 So there also -- there's nothing -- no one has 23 shown up for this hearing. So having received no -- no 24 people here and no witness affirmation forms, we will close 25 this public comment hearing at this time. 0005 1 MR. TIRLONI: Go off record. 2 (Adjourned and concluded at 9:34 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 0006 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 STATE OF TEXAS ) 3 COUNTY OF HARRIS ) 4 I, Kimberly C. McCright, Certified Vendor and 5 Notary in and for the State of Texas, do hereby certify that 6 the above-mentioned matter occurred as hereinbefore set out. 7 I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT the proceedings of such were 8 reported by me or under my supervision, later reduced to 9 typewritten form under my supervision and control and that 10 the foregoing pages are a full, true and correct 11 transcription of the original notes. 12 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and 13 seal this 18th day of November, 2017. 14 15 /s/ Kimberly C. McCright Kimberly C. McCright 16 Certified Vendor and Notary Public 17 Verbatim Reporting & Transcription, LLC 1322 Space Park Drive, Suite C165 18 Houston, Texas 77058 281.724.8600 19 20 21 22 23 24 25