Bill Text: TX HB394 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to limits on prizes for bingo games.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB394 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB394-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 394 |
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relating to limits on prizes for bingo games. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2001.420(b), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A [ |
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may not offer or award on a single bingo occasion prizes with an | ||
aggregate value of more than $2,500 for all bingo games other than: | ||
(1) pull-tab bingo; or | ||
(2) bingo games that award individual prizes of $50 or | ||
less. | ||
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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 394 was passed by the House on April | ||
30, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 394 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 21, Nays 10. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |