The State - News from April 11, 1985

The California State Lottery Commission voted to prepare requests for proposals to be sent to suppliers of both instant and so-called “on line” lottery games. Howard E. Varner, interim commission chairman, said after the meeting in Los Angeles that he expected instant “scratch-off” lottery tickets to go on sale in California sometime in September and the more complicated computerized number games to be operational by the end of the year. Development of the requests for proposals--documents used by suppliers to indicate the type and price of their products--is expected to take three to four weeks.