1 1 TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS 2 BEFORE THE 3 TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION 4 AUSTIN, TEXAS 5 6 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING ON § 7 PROPOSED RULE 16 TAC §401.323 § ("MONOPOLYŽ MILLIONAIRES' CLUB § 8 GAME RULE) § 9 10 11 PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING 12 TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2014 13 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 11:00 a.m. until 11:12 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. Deanne Rienstra 4 PRODUCTS AND DRAWINGS MANAGER: 5 Mr. Robert Tirloni 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 (11:00 a.m) 4 MS. RIENSTRA: Okay. Good morning. The 5 time is 11 a.m. Today is July 22nd, 2014. My name is 6 Deanne Rienstra, Assistant General Counsel for the Texas 7 Lottery Commission. With me today is Robert Tirloni, 8 Products and Drawing Manager for the Texas Lottery. 9 The purpose of this hearing is to receive 10 public comment on the proposed new game rule, 16 Texas 11 Administrative Code Section 401.323 MONOPOLYŽ 12 Millionaires' Club. This proposed new game rule was 13 published in the Texas Register on July 4, 2014. 14 In addition to this public hearing, the 15 Commission is accepting written comment by mail, email, 16 and facsimile. Written comments should be submitted no 17 later than Monday, August 4, 2014. 18 The hearing notice was included in the 19 proposed rule posted on the Commission's website and 20 also published in the Texas Register on Friday, July 4, 21 2014. 22 The purpose of the proposed new rule is to 23 establish and share with the public the details of the 24 game design, matrix, prize level structure and operation 25 of the proposed new lottery game. This is a national 4 1 premium game sponsored by the Multi-State Lottery 2 Association, of which Texas is a member lottery. 3 Since the publication of this proposed new 4 game rule in the Texas Register, the Multi-State Lottery 5 Association has made some terminology and minor prize 6 structure changes to the National Premium Game Product 7 Group game rules. 8 As stated in the Texas Lottery's proposed 9 new game rule in Section (a), quote, The conduct and 10 play of MONOPOLYŽ Millionaires' Club must conform to the 11 MUSL National Premium Game Product Group MONOPOLYŽ 12 Millionaires' Club Game Rules, closed quote. Therefore, 13 it'll be anticipated that conforming changes will be 14 necessary at the time this proposed rule is submitted to 15 the Commission for adoption. 16 We have not received any witness 17 affirmation forms this morning; therefore, we will take 18 a ten-minute break and resume the hearing. 19 (Recess: 11:02 a.m. to 11:12 a.m.) 20 MS. RIENSTRA: Okay. We'll go back on the 21 record. It seems to me to be about 11:12. Okay. So we 22 are back on the record. Having received no witness 23 affirmation forms, then at this time, which is still 24 11:12, we will stand adjourned. Thank you very much. 25 (Proceedings concluded at 11:12 a.m.) 5 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