Bill Text: TX HB4019 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the operation of a sports betting website and the placement of a bet through a sports betting website; creating a criminal offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-01 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB4019 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB4019-Introduced.html
  84R5910 GCB-D
 
  By: Herrero H.B. No. 4019
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the operation of a sports betting website and the
  placement of a bet through a sports betting website; creating a
  criminal offense.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 47, Penal Code, is amended by adding
  Section 47.045 to read as follows:
         Sec. 47.045.  OPERATING SPORTS BETTING WEBSITE. (a) A
  person commits an offense if the person knowingly operates an
  Internet website that allows the user to make through use of the
  website a bet on the outcome of a sporting event or on participation
  in a competition based on the performance of the players in a
  sporting event or series of sporting events.
         (b)  A person who makes a bet through use of an Internet
  website described by Subsection (a) commits an offense under
  Section 47.02(a)(1).
         (c)  An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class A
  misdemeanor.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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