1996-116-RES WHEREAS, TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION CONDUCTED TEXAS LOTTERY SINCE ITS IMPLEMENTATION
RESOLUTION NO. 96-116
WHEREAS, the Texas Lottery Commission has conducted the Texas Lottery since its
implementation in 1993; and,
WHEREAS, Senator Tom Haywood of the 30th Senatorial District will present a senate
bill at the 75th Legislative Session, beginning in 1997, which would require the Texas Lottery
Commission to return five cents of every dollar made on the sale of lottery tickets to the city
in which the sale was transacted or to the county in which the sale was transacted if such sale
was in an unincorporated area of said county; and,
WHEREAS, lottery ticket sales in Paris and Lamar County during the calendar year
1995 totalled $10,611,273.00, and this proposed bill would have returned to the cities and
county of Lamar County their proportionate share of $530,564.00; therefore, it is appropriate
that the City Council endorse said proposed senate bill; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, that the
senate bill to be presented by Senator Tom Haywood at the 75th Legislative Session, beginning
in 1997, which would, if passed, require that the Texas Lottery Commission return five cents
of every dollar made on the sale of lottery tickets to the city in which the sale was transacted
or to the county in which the sale was transacted if such sale was in an unincorporated area of
said county be, and the same is hereby, endorsed; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk, Mattie Cunningham, be, and she
is hereby, directed to send a certified copy of this Resolution to "The Honorable Tom Haywood,
Texas Senate, P. O. Box 12068 - Capitol Station, Austin, Texas 78711."
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Eric S. Clifford, Mayor
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