Bill Text: TX HB3125 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to charitable raffles conducted by the charitable foundations of certain professional sports teams.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - See remarks for effective date [HB3125 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3125-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3125 |
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relating to charitable raffles conducted by the charitable | ||
foundations of certain professional sports teams. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2004.002, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subdivision (1-a) and amending Subdivision (2) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(1-a) "Debit card" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
32.31, Penal Code. | ||
(2) "Professional sports team" means: | ||
(A) a team organized in this state that is a | ||
member of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball | ||
Association, the National Hockey League, the National Football | ||
League, [ |
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East Coast Hockey League, the American Association of Independent | ||
Professional Baseball, the Atlantic League of Professional | ||
Baseball, Minor League Baseball, the National Basketball | ||
Association Development League, the National Women's Soccer | ||
League, the Major Arena Soccer League, the United Soccer League, or | ||
the Women's National Basketball Association; | ||
(B) a person hosting a motorsports racing team | ||
event sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto | ||
Racing (NASCAR), INDYCar, or another nationally recognized | ||
motorsports racing association at a venue in this state with a | ||
permanent seating capacity of not less than 75,000; or | ||
(C) an organization hosting a Professional Golf | ||
Association event. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 2004.009(a), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A person commits an offense if the person accepts any | ||
form of payment other than United States currency or a debit card | ||
for the purchase of a raffle ticket for a charitable raffle | ||
conducted under this chapter. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on December 1, 2017, but | ||
only if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 85th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, to authorize additional | ||
professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct | ||
charitable raffles at additional venues is approved by the voters. | ||
If that amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no | ||
effect. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3125 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3125 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 24, Nays 6. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |