Senate Bill 3070 would allow the Texas Lottery’s games to continue under a new department, abolish the agency and create restrictions on ticket purchases.

SB 3070, which awaits Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature, would move the lottery game to Texas’ Department of Licensing and Regulation and includes new restrictions on ticket purchases. Audio ...

Set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the classic blockbuster movie, the Texas Lottery has launched a Jaws-inspired ...

The legislation stems from deep misgivings among top state leaders over the way the state-run gaming enterprise has been run.

Three North Texans claimed a $1 million prize in various lottery scratch and draw games. The Texas Lottery said a McKinney ...

The former director later wrote new rules to outlaw such ... The 1991 state law that established the Texas Lottery expressly forbids buying and selling game tickets by phone.

Hall told us on Inside Texas Politics. Senator Hall says his new legislation ... Commission to review the lottery in a couple of years to determine whether the game will continue.

Those new restrictions include a new ban on online lottery ticket sales with ... the “most regressive tax” in Texas, and his supporters claimed the game unfairly preys on the poor and could ...