NEXT AT 10: A jackpot-winning Texas Lottery ticket worth $95 million has been sold in Colleyville, but questions over where this ticket was bought are causing some concerns.
Texas Senate Bill 1820, authored by Sen. Bob Hall, has passed the Senate. The bill is now in a House committee, according to Sen. Hall.
“It makes it real clear that use of any aspect of it, if there’s internet, computers involved in it cannot be done,” Hall told NBC 5 Thursday. “It’s the issue itself being outside the bounds of what the Legislature really intended in allowing the lottery to take place and not be done such that it opens it up to encouraging an addict to easily spend family fortune.”
Under Texas law, all purchases of Texas Lottery tickets are required to be conducted at licensed brick-and-mortar retailer locations. Lottery courier services, which are third-party companies that purchase tickets on behalf of Texas Lottery players and deliver them digitally to players via third-party apps, added a new dynamic to a recent Lotto Texas jackpot run.
The Texas Lottery Commission said after seven months and 93 drawings without a jackpot winner, a winning Lotto TexasThe interest in this particular jackpot made the recent Lotto Texas run unique, according to executive director Gary Grief. “It created a phenomenon. It’s something that I have seen occur around the country and other parts of the world over time, but we have never experienced it before here in Texas,” Grief said. “What that phenomenon was, was purchasing groups came to Texas and they saw that the odds of winning the jackpot was 1 in 25 million. They saw that the jackpot was $95 million and they started buying tickets in bulk.
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