Bill Text: TX HB874 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a charitable raffle ticket awarded as a bingo prize.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB874-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a charitable raffle ticket awarded as a bingo prize.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective immediately [HB874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB874-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) | H.B. No. 874 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2017; | ||
May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 12, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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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. | ||
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