Bill Text: TX HB457 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to restrictions on the promotion and operation of charitable raffles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-27 - Effective immediately [HB457 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB457-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 457 |
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relating to restrictions on the promotion and operation of | ||
charitable raffles. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 2002.054(a) and (b), Occupations Code, | ||
are amended 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. | ||
(b) Except as provided by this subsection, the [ |
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organization may not compensate a person directly or indirectly for | ||
organizing or conducting a raffle or for selling or offering to sell | ||
tickets to a raffle. A member of the organization who is employed | ||
by the organization may organize and conduct a raffle, but the | ||
member's work organizing or conducting a raffle may not be more than | ||
a de minimis portion of the member's employment with the | ||
organization. | ||
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, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 457 was passed by the House on March | ||
30, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 4, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 457 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
10, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |