The Texas Lottery Commission will pay nearly $46 million to a Houston-area woman who was denied her winnings for months amid investigations and controversies that tied up her payout.
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Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday signed Senate Bill 3070, which will disband the Texas Lottery Commission and also criminalize the online sale of lottery tickets through couriers.
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Clark Smith, one of five members of the commission, stepped down Friday as lawmakers have raised questions about the role of lottery couriers and agency governance.
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Smith’s resignation comes just over a week after he and several other Texas Lottery Commission officials were grilled at a state Senate Finance Committee hearing over couriers, which lawmakers worry might be allowing people to game the lottery system — potentially illegally.
A million dollar lottery ticket purchased in Houston expired on Sunday after no one claimed the prize.
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Prizes under $5 million may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission to support the provision of inpatient hospital services in facilities located in counties along the Texas-Mexico border.
It's possible that "no laws were broken", but what's certain is that Eric Dexheimer's reporting has exposed the Texas Lottery Commission's ethical failure.
Stacked-odds Lotto Texas win exposed by Chronicle prompts new rules
Texas Lottery scratch-off tickets recently yielded prizes of $1 million or more for a quartet of Houston-area residents. And a $1 million Powerball ticket sold in Houston in July remains unclaimed.
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The biggest recent scratch-off winner was a Conroe resident who took a $3 million prize, according to the Texas Lottery Commission, which also announced this week that a $1 million Powerball ticket sold in Houston in July had yet to be claimed.
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