Bill Text: TX HJR73 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to permit professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct charitable raffles.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Filed with the Secretary of State [HJR73 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR73-Enrolled.html
H.J.R. No. 73 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature | ||
to permit professional sports team charitable foundations to | ||
conduct charitable raffles. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 47, Article III, Texas Constitution, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The Legislature shall pass laws prohibiting lotteries | ||
and gift enterprises in this State other than those authorized by | ||
Subsections (b), (d), (d-1), and (e) of this section. | ||
(d-1) The legislature by general law may permit a | ||
professional sports team charitable foundation to conduct | ||
charitable raffles under the terms and conditions imposed by | ||
general law. The law may authorize the charitable foundation to pay | ||
with the raffle proceeds reasonable advertising, promotional, and | ||
administrative expenses. A law enacted under this subsection may | ||
apply only to an entity that is defined as a professional sports | ||
team charitable foundation on January 1, 2016, and may only allow | ||
charitable raffles to be conducted at games hosted at the home venue | ||
of the professional sports team associated with a professional | ||
sports team charitable foundation. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment authorizing the | ||
legislature to permit professional sports team charitable | ||
foundations to conduct charitable raffles." | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.J.R. No. 73 was passed by the House on April | ||
16, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 9, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.J.R. No. 73 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
6, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
RECEIVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Secretary of State |