BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 3012

By: Geren

Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The Professional Sports Team Charitable Foundation Raffle Enabling Act authorizes qualifying professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct charitable raffles to raise money for the foundation's charitable purposes. These charitable foundations support causes such as after‑school health and fitness programs, community service initiatives, and youth scholarships. Given that these charitable raffles have proven to be instrumental in generating revenue in support of these important charitable purposes, there have been calls for the legislature to allow more foundations to conduct these raffles. C.S.H.B. 3012 seeks to answer these calls and include an organization sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association among those qualified to conduct charitable raffles.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 3012 amends the Occupations Code to include an organization sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association among the organizations considered a professional sports team for the purposes of the Professional Sports Team Charitable Foundation Raffle Enabling Act. The bill includes a professional sports team charitable foundation that is associated with a professional sports team with a rodeo venue located in Texas among the foundations that qualify to hold a charitable raffle under that act. The bill authorizes a qualifying foundation to conduct a charitable raffle during each rodeo event at such a rodeo venue and includes definitions for "rodeo event" and "rodeo venue."

EFFECTIVE DATE

December 1, 2021, if the constitutional amendment authorizing the professional sports team charitable foundations of organizations sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to conduct charitable raffles at rodeo venues is approved by the voters.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

While C.S.H.B. 3012 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following summarizes the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.

The substitute includes a foundation that is associated with a professional sports team with a rodeo venue located in Texas among the foundations that may qualify to hold a charitable raffle under that act.

The substitute authorizes a qualifying foundation to conduct a charitable raffle during each rodeo event at a rodeo venue.

The substitute includes definitions for "rodeo event" and "rodeo venue."