Retailers that sell lose their license at every location for a year.
The bill bars lottery ticket retailers from knowingly selling, or allowing the sale of, drawing-game tickets to anyone trying to buy every possible winning ticket combination for a drawing. A retailer that breaks this rule loses its lottery sales license at every one of its locations after a hearing, and cannot reapply for a year. Starting September 1, 2025, stores that sell lottery tickets face license loss if they knowingly help a buyer try to cover every combination in a drawing.
relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all
possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing.
WHAT IT DOES
Retailers that sell lose their license at every location for a year.
The bill bars lottery ticket retailers from knowingly selling, or allowing the sale of, drawing-game tickets to anyone trying to buy every possible winning ticket combination for a drawing. A retailer that breaks this rule loses its lottery sales license at every one of its locations after a hearing, and cannot reapply for a year. Starting September 1, 2025, stores that sell lottery tickets face license loss if they knowingly help a buyer try to cover every combination in a drawing.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No first-year general revenue figure available here.
The fiscal revenue implications of the bill cannot be determined due to unknown penalty amounts, the unknown number of potential violations, and the unknown timing of and number of re-applications of potential revoked licensees. The fiscal revenue implications of any associated fees cannot be determined.
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
HISTORY
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Filed
Read first time
Referred to State Affairs
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Considered in public hearing
Testimony taken in committee
Left pending in committee
Co-author authorized
Considered in public hearing
Vote taken in committee
Reported favorably as substituted
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
Committee report printed and distributed
Placed on local & uncontested calendar
Laid before the Senate
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
Vote recorded in Journal
Three day rule suspended
Record vote
Read 3rd time
Passed
Record vote
Reported engrossed
Received from the Senate
Read first time
Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Considered in public hearing
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
Left pending in committee
Considered in formal meeting
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
Committee report distributed
Committee report sent to Calendars
Considered in Calendars
Placed on General State Calendar
Read 2nd time
Passed to 3rd reading
Record vote RV#3632
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
Read 3rd time
Passed
Record vote RV#3679
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
House passage reported
Reported enrolled
Signed in the Senate
Signed in the House
Sent to the Governor
Signed by the Governor
Effective on 9/1/25
FILED UNDER
No verified beat found.
SIGNED FOR BY
House · 138 yea · 0 nay
Senate · 30 yea · 0 nay
Sources
House: Final passage · May 27, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Senate: Final passage · Apr 10, 2025. Journal. Published stock for this vote. Snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records final passage. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Sources
CSSB 1346 (Hughes) Relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing. (viva voce vote) (30-0) (30-0)
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records suspension of the three-day rule. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Sources
CSSB 1346 (Hughes) Relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing. (viva voce vote) (30-0) (30-0)
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 30 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records passage to engrossment. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Voice vote. No numeric tally or individual yeas are inferred.
Sources
CSSB 1346 (Hughes) Relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing. (viva voce vote) (30-0) (30-0)
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: Not printed
Nay: Not printed
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Witnesses11
For
9
Against
0
On
2
Names
For
Baptist General Convention of Texas Christian Life Commission1 registration
Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas1 registration
Lotto.com1 registration
Self3 registrations
Self; Harris county ballot security1 registration
Self; True texas projeect1 registration
Texas Food & Fuel Association1 registration
On
Texas Lottery Commission2 registrations
Sources
11 parsed registrations across the loaded witness lists.
Derived stock of witness registrations. Repeated appearances count separately. Organizations and self-representation appear as printed.
The fiscal revenue implications of the bill cannot be determined due to unknown penalty amounts, the unknown number of potential violations, and the unknown timing of and number of re-applications of potential revoked licensees. The fiscal revenue implications of any associated fees cannot be determined.
LBB published estimates · flow over the stated periods.
Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
How this was graded
Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
89R9028 BEE-D
By: Hughes
S.B. No. 1346
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all
possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 466, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 466.1555 to read as follows:
Sec. 466.1555. PROHIBITED SALES TO PERSONS ATTEMPTING TO
PURCHASE ALL POSSIBLE WINNING LOTTERY TICKETS. (a) A sales agent
may not knowingly sell or allow the sale of tickets for a lottery
game involving a drawing to one or more persons attempting to
purchase all possible winning tickets for the drawing.
(b) After a hearing, the commission shall revoke a license
issued under this chapter to a sales agent who violates Subsection
(a) for each of the sales agent's licensed locations.
(c) A person whose license is revoked under Subsection (b)
may not apply for a sales agent license under this chapter before
the first anniversary of the license revocation date.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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