Bill Text: TX HB2138 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the sale of charitable raffle tickets by certain nonprofit wildlife conservation associations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB2138 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2138-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2138 | ||
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| relating to the sale of charitable raffle tickets by certain | ||
| nonprofit wildlife conservation associations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2002.054, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) The organization may not: | ||
| (1) directly or indirectly, by the use of paid | ||
| advertising, promote a raffle through a medium of mass | ||
| communication, including television, radio, or newspaper; | ||
| (2) promote or advertise a raffle statewide, other | ||
| than on the organization's Internet website or through a | ||
| publication or solicitation, including a newsletter, social media, | ||
| or electronic mail, provided only to previously identified | ||
| supporters of the organization; or | ||
| (3) sell or offer to sell tickets for a raffle | ||
| statewide, except as provided by Subsection (a-1). | ||
| (a-1) A nonprofit wildlife conservation association, | ||
| including each local chapter, affiliate, wildlife cooperative, or | ||
| unit, that for purposes of this chapter is a qualified nonprofit | ||
| organization eligible under Section 2002.003(e), may use the | ||
| organization's Internet website to sell or offer to sell tickets | ||
| for a raffle to previously identified supporters of the | ||
| organization. This subsection does not authorize the use of an | ||
| Internet website to: | ||
| (1) provide a graphic or dynamic animation of an entry | ||
| to a raffle; or | ||
| (2) provide a graphic or dynamic animation of the | ||
| drawing of raffle tickets. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2138 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 13, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 21, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2138 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 30, | ||
| 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2138 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays | ||
| 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
