Bill Text: TX HJR91 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize additional professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct charitable raffles at additional venues.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HJR91 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HJR91-Introduced.html
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By: Raymond | H.J.R. No. 91 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize additional | ||
professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct | ||
charitable raffles at additional venues. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 47(d-1), Article III, Texas | ||
Constitution, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(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 | ||
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professional sports team charitable foundation under that law on | ||
January 1, 2018 [ |
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SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment to authorize additional | ||
professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct | ||
charitable raffles at additional venues." |