Texas Lottery Commission abolished, oversight of Texas Lottery transferred

Comment #13

JADELottery — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:36:48 GMT

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The bill includes new language that prohibits the facilitation of lottery play through an Internet or mobile application, which would, by its description, broadly ban lottery couriers. More specifically, a player cannot order the purchase of a ticket, and an individual cannot accept an order for a ticket from a player or arrange to purchase a ticket on behalf of a person playing the lottery .

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By that, seems lottery pools would fit this description..

Comment #12

Clarkejoseph49 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:03:00 GMT

I bet you the Texas Lottery get bought by a foreign company.

Comment #11

LottoIntuitive — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:53:03 GMT

These laws should not apply to games like the Pick 3/4. They have nothing to do with the whole controversy of buying jackpots.

Some of these Texas lawmakers own brick-and-mortar stores that sell lottery tickets, and now players can only buy tickets at these stores. This is BS.

Comment #10

Artist77 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:23:32 GMT

I just do not understand if the Texas lottery has even an entry level attorney on staff or retains an outside law firm.

Assuming they do not want to prevent someone picking up a ticket for a friend (and the way it is written, they do seem to want to ban any third party purchases), they could have easily clarified this issue with a written policy. While the Texas lottery does not intend to ban the infrequent and minimal personal purchases of lottery tickets by third party Texas residents for

Comment #9

Brock Lee — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:23:00 GMT

suddenly in texas a physically disabled person can more easily buy guns, alcohol, tobacco, and a naughty magazine than a lottery ticket.

Comment #8

Artist77 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:14:18 GMT

Yes. It says order or arrange. Very broad language.

If you had a huge win with your facts, you could argue it was an informal social favor between friends and hope a court narrows and interprets the law as being overbroad. 50/50 odds at best.

It is a big jump in logic for the Texas lottery needing and wanting to ban couriers and then further extending it to a daughter buying her invalid aunt a lottery ticket.

Comment #7

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:10:05 GMT

My reply to Brock was a tongue in cheek answer.

But TLC and TX legislature is making a mess an even bigger mess. They effectively eliminated pool players where typically a person in charge of a pool buys tickets for the other members of the pool.

The bill includes new language that prohibits the facilitation of lottery play through an Internet or mobile application, which would, by its description, broadly ban lottery couriers. More specifically, a player cannot order the purchase of a... [ More ]

Comment #6

Kee12 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:49:54 GMT

So if the ticket wins big, during the claim process, and they ask: how did you buy the ticket? What are you going to say then? Unless you are claiming jointly then there may be a problem, especially knowing they may check camera footage of the store you purchased the ticket from.

Comment #5

Loteriaplayer1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 03:59:15 GMT

If only we could start a rally, to save the lottery. Telling them to do a sunset review.

Comment #4

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 03:24:59 GMT

Not if you both keep your mouths shut.....

TX really made a mess, not too surprised.

Comment #3

Brock Lee — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:55:52 GMT

ok wait a minute. if i'm physically located in texas and i text my buddy chad (also physically located in texas) on my mobile phone to ask him to pick me up a lottery ticket while he's out running errands or whatever, and then he gives me the ticket and i pay him back a couple bucks, does that mean one or both of us has broken texas law

Comment #2

Onelast8 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:51:52 GMT

They are shutting down the Lottery Commission retitling and calling it the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which in basic human terms means Under New Management by the Old Management how original.

Comment #1

Loteriaplayer1 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:39:43 GMT

Ok, will just have to see if the lottery continues under new law.

Texas Lottery Commission abolished, oversight of Texas Lottery transferred

Lottery Post — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:26:13 GMT

Lottery terminal and vending machine limits placed on retailers, ticket buying restrictions enacted

By Kate Northrop

On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 3070 into law, which abolishes the Texas Lottery Commission, transfers their oversight to another state department, and enacts limits on retailers and ticket purchases.

Following months of arduous back-and-forth about the future of the Texas Lottery in this year's legislative session, the Texas Lottery Commission will cea... [ More ]