NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/11/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1142
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) DelGrosso, Gardner, Gerou, Kagan,
      Lawrence, Murray, Priola, Szabo, Wright, Ferrandino, Becker;
      also SENATOR(S) Grantham and Nicholson, Crowder, Rivera.
      
      
      Concerning a prohibition against the off-site electronic sale of
           lottery tickets by the Colorado lottery commission.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-35-208, amend (2)
      (f) as follows:
      
           24-35-208.  Commission - powers and duties - rules. (2)  Except
      as provided in subsection (3) of this section, rules promulgated pursuant to
      subsection (1) of this section shall include, but shall not be limited to, the
      following:
      
           (f)  Without limit to number, the types of locations at which tickets
      or shares may be sold; except that the commission shall not
      promulgate any rule, issue any order, or adopt any policy or
      interpretation before July 1, 2017, that authorizes or permits the
      purchase of tickets, including instant scratch tickets, or shares
      by means of the internet, telephone, computer, or any other
      electronic device or equipment that the purchaser can access or
      use to purchase lottery tickets other than by doing so
      personally at a licensed lottery sales agent's physical place of
      business;
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO