Senate Bill 3070 would allow the Texas Lottery’s games to continue under a new department, abolish the agency and create restrictions on ticket purchases.

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional."

The $7.8 billion school funding bill proposed by the Texas Senate and agreed to by the governor and House speaker is the largest infusion of new dollars into public education in the state’s history, said state Sen.