Here is Texas lottery transcript about California joining Powerball:
AGENDA ITEM NO. VIII
8 CHAIRMAN WILLIAMSON: The next item is the
9 report by the Executive Director and/or possible
10 discussion and/or action on the agency's operational
11 status, agency procedures, awards and FTE status.
12 Gary, this is also your item.
13 MR. GRIEF: Commissioners, other than the
14 items in your notebook, I do have one item I would like
15 to report on this morning.
16 Last week I participated in the World
17 Lottery Summit 2012. This was a joint venture between
18 the World Lottery Association, otherwise know as WLA,
19 and the North American Association of State and
20 Provincial Lotteries, know as NASPL. This event was
21 hosted by Lotto Quebec, and it featured the largest
22 lottery industry trade show in history. The summit also
23 involved a three-day business program involving leaders
24 from the international lottery community as well as some
25 very notable outside speakers as well.
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1 I participated in one session which was
2 called a lottery pep talk in which I moderated a
3 discussion between the directors of the Mexico, the
4 French and the Kentucky lotteries. This session
5 demonstrated how the mission and values of governmental
6 lotteries around the world are very similar but, even
7 more important, very critical to our role in trying to
8 fend off the competition from the growing number of
9 gambling entities in the private sector.
10 A meeting of the Mega Millions group, of
11 which I'm a lead director, also occurred during this
12 conference. And I'm pleased to report that the
13 initiative that I'm spearheading to try to consolidate
14 Mega Millions and the Multi-State Lottery Association
15 which oversees Powerball is still active, and we're
16 making slow but steady progress in that regard.
17 Also of note, MUSL, which does oversee the
18 Powerball game, took a vote in their meeting during the
19 week to allow the State of California to begin selling
20 Powerball around January of next year. And California
21 has not been selling Powerball up to this point.
22 No changes to the Powerball game, no
23 changes to the matrix are anticipated. My understanding
24 is, that game is geared to handle the influx of
25 population from California. And the expectation is that
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1 jackpots will grow faster ........