Bill Text: TX HB874 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a charitable raffle ticket awarded as a bingo prize.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB874-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 874 | ||
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| relating to a charitable raffle ticket awarded as a bingo prize. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2001.420, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding any other law, a licensed authorized | ||
| organization may offer and award as a bingo prize under this chapter | ||
| a ticket for a charitable raffle conducted under Chapter 2002. The | ||
| bingo prize amount is the cost to purchase the ticket to enter the | ||
| charitable raffle for purposes of this chapter. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 874 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 874 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
