1 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 6 7 8 IN RE: ) PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO ) 9 THE TEXAS LOTTERY ) COMMISSION PROCEDURE LOTTO) 10 TEXAS JACKPOT ESTIMATION ) 11 12 13 14 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING 15 Monday, February 25, 2013 16 17 18 19 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT at 2:00 p.m., on 20 Monday, the 25th day of February 2013, the 21 above-entitled matter came on for hearing at the Texas 22 Lottery Commission, 611 E. Sixth Street Commission 23 Auditorium, Austin, Texas, before BOB BIARD, and the 24 following proceedings were reported via machine 25 shorthand by Lou Ray, Certified Shorthand Reporter. 2 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013 3 (2:00 p.m.) 4 MR. BIARD: All right. We're on the 5 record. 6 Good afternoon. My name is Bob Biard. 7 I'm the General Counsel of the Texas Lottery Commission. 8 The time is two o'clock on February 25th, 2013. This is 9 a hearing to receive public comments regarding a 10 proposed amendment to the Texas Lottery Commission's 11 procedure Lotto Texas Jackpot Estimation No. OC-JE-002. 12 This is a procedure that affects Lotto Texas players. 13 The proposed amendment and notice of this 14 hearing was published in the January 2013 issue of the 15 Texas Register at 38 Texas Register page 428 and on the 16 Texas Lottery Commission website. The Commission voted 17 on the proposed amendment in a public meeting on 18 January 11th, 2013. The purpose of the proposed 19 amendment is to incorporate recent revisions to the 20 Lotto Texas game including changes to the annuity 21 period, starting jackpot amounts and roll increments. 22 I note for the record there are no persons 23 from the public in attendance at this hearing at this 24 time. So I would like to recess this hearing for 10 25 minutes to give any late arrivals an opportunity to 3 1 appear. And in 10 minutes we will reconvene at 2 -- 2 around 2:13. So with that, I will go off the record. 3 Thank you. 4 (Recess: 2:03 p.m. to 2:12 p.m.) 5 MR. BIARD: Okay. We're back on the 6 record. It is 12:12 -- I'm sorry, it's about 2:12 on 7 February 25th, 2013, and no one has shown up to appear 8 at this hearing to give comments on the proposed 9 amendments to the Lotto Texas procedure. What will 10 happen going forward is at least 30 days following this 11 hearing the TLC Staff will develop a recommendation to 12 Commission for final approval of the procedure Lotto 13 Texas Jackpot Estimation to the Commission for final 14 approval. And the Office of the Controller will present 15 the procedure to the Commission at a future, duly 16 noticed public meeting. And that will probably be at 17 least 30 days after this hearing, sometime after 18 March 27th. And we anticipate it will be by April 12th. 19 Having no further business, I'll adjourn 20 this hearing. Thank you. 21 (Proceedings concluded at 2:14 p.m.) 22 23 24 25 4 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 STATE OF TEXAS ) 3 COUNTY OF TRAVIS ) 4 I, Lou Ray, Certified Shorthand Reporter in and 5 for the State of Texas, do hereby certify that the 6 above-mentioned matter occurred as hereinbefore set out. 7 I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT the proceedings of such 8 were reported by me or under my supervision, later 9 reduced to typewritten form under my supervision and 10 control and that the foregoing pages are a full, true, 11 and correct transcription of the original notes. 12 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand 13 and seal this 5th day of March 2013. 14 15 _______________________________ 16 LOU RAY Certified Shorthand Reporter 17 CSR No. 1791 - Expires 12/31/13 18 Firm Registration No. 276 Kennedy Reporting Service, Inc. 19 1016 La Posada Drive, Suite 294 Austin, Texas 78752 20 512.474.2233 21 22 23 24 Job No. 106783 25