Texas Legislature dissolves Lottery Commission following suspicious jackpot wins, bulk buy schemes, and regulatory failures, ...

State Sen. Bob Hall (R-Edgewood) wants to close the Texas Lottery Commission’s doors, saying it’s a criminal operation.

The Texas House voted in favor of abolishing the Texas Lottery Commission and transferring the Texas Lottery to a different ...

It's been an absolute mess with the Texas Lottery lately. This led to the Texas House and Senate creating bills with the ...

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A Texas House committee has approved legislation that would preserve the state’s lottery while dissolving the Texas Lottery ...

Monday marked one week to go until the end of regular session Voting would go until midnight, another late push on Tuesday ...

The scandal surrounding the Texas Lottery is prompting big changes in the Legislature. The Texas House passed a bill Monday morning that will transfer the lottery games to the Texas Department of ...

The Texas House passed a proposal to abolish the Lottery Commission and place oversight of lottery games and Charitable Bingo ...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as "qualified immunity," which can protect cops ...

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The Texas Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to eliminate the Texas Lottery Commission, which seeks to shift ...