89R5007 BEE-D     By: Menéndez S.B. No. 738       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the use of unclaimed lottery prize money to benefit the   child-care services program administered by the Texas Workforce   Commission.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (b)  If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the   180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize   money shall be used in the following order of priority:                (1)  subject to legislative appropriation, not more   than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to the   Department of State Health Services state-owned multicategorical   teaching hospital account, which is an account in the general   revenue fund, or appropriated from that account to provide indigent   health care services as specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety   Code;                (2)  not more than $5 million in prize money each year   may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and   shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital   services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the   Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not   less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal   Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology   for the hospital providing the services;                (3)  [the remaining amount,] not more than [to exceed]   $5 million in prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount   deposited in the fund in that year attributable to the lottery game   operated under Section 466.027[,] shall be deposited to the fund   for veterans' assistance; [and]                (4)  the remaining amount, not to exceed $5 million in   prize money in each state fiscal year, shall be deposited to the   general revenue fund for appropriation only to fund the child-care   services program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission;   and                (5)  all prize money subject to this section and not   deposited or appropriated in accordance with Subdivision (1), (2),   [or] (3), or (4) shall be deposited to the credit of the foundation   school fund.          SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section   466.408, Government Code, applies only to an unclaimed prize for a   lottery game for which the winner was selected on or after the   effective date of this Act. An unclaimed prize for which the winner   was selected before the effective date of this Act is governed by   the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this   Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.