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The latest effort to overhaul the Texas lottery could come with a hefty price tag. Here's why.
The legislation would end lottery couriers and restart the process to hire a vendor to oversee the behind-the-scenes ...
Confidential Texas Lottery report cites lapses that helped gamblers stack odds for $95M jackpot
The Texas Lottery Commission took another look at a controversial jackpot awarded in 2023, confirming regulatory lapses ...
The Texas Lottery is broken. Fix it, don’t ditch it
The Texas lotto shouldn't disappear, but it needs to be investigated and reformed and possibly moved into another agency. ...
A fierce critic of the Texas lottery is now offering the embattled agency a lifeline
A new legislative proposal would dissolve the lottery oversight panel and handover the operation of the games to a difference ...
‘I’m being treated as the bad guy’: Texas woman’s $83M lottery prize now 'on hold' because she used ticket app
A group of international gamblers legally purchased nearly every number combination in a Texas state lottery drawing — a ...
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The Texas Lottery and billions in school funding in limbo as deadline nears at Capitol
Lawmakers must act on two bills in order to ensure the lottery continues past September, or find a way to make up the $2 ...
Here’s where bills stand on schools, taxes, marijuana as TX Legislature winds down
The Senate passed its version of the proposal, Senate Bill 3, in March, but it has since been amended in a House committee.