" Spared from dissolution, Texas Lottery gets a second chance under new management " was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

On Sept. 1, the 32-year-old Texas Lottery Commission will be abolished, ending the agency designed to run one of the few legal forms of gambling in Texas: the state-run lottery operation.

Most of the commission’s employees, however, will still show up for work at the same office and in the same jobs to support the same games — only now, it will be the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation they will be reporting to. Under a new state law, TDLR will take over running the $8 billion operation originall

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