By: Telford H.B. No. 460
73R2004 LJD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to expenses for child care services provided at bingo
1-3 games.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Bingo Enabling Act (Article 179d,
1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by amending Subdivision
1-7 (10) and adding Subdivision (24) to read as follows:
1-8 (10) "Net proceeds" means:
1-9 (A) in relation to the gross receipts from one
1-10 or more occasions of bingo, the amount that remains after deducting
1-11 the reasonable sums necessarily and actually expended for
1-12 advertising, security, repairs to premises and equipment, bingo
1-13 supplies and equipment, prizes, stated rental, or mortgage and
1-14 insurance expenses, if any, bookkeeping or accounting services,
1-15 fees for personnel as permitted under Subsection (c) of Section 19
1-16 of this Act, janitorial services, child care services, and utility
1-17 supplies and services, if any, license fees, and the gross receipts
1-18 tax; and
1-19 (B) in relation to the gross rent or other
1-20 consideration received by an organization licensed to conduct bingo
1-21 for the use of its premises, fixtures, or equipment by another
1-22 licensee, the amount that remains after deducting the reasonable
1-23 sums necessarily and actually expended for janitorial services and
1-24 utility supplies directly attributable to the use of the premises,
2-1 fixtures, or equipment, if any.
2-2 (24) "Child care services" means the care, custody,
2-3 and supervision of children whose parents or responsible parties
2-4 are players participating in a bingo game, whether or not the
2-5 players are charged for the services.
2-6 SECTION 2. Section 19(c), Bingo Enabling Act (Article 179d,
2-7 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-8 (c) Items of expense may not be incurred or paid in
2-9 connection with the conduct of any game of bingo under any license
2-10 issued under this Act except those that are reasonable and are
2-11 necessarily expended for advertising, security, repairs to premises
2-12 and equipment, bingo supplies and equipment, prizes, stated rental
2-13 or mortgage and insurance expenses, if any, bookkeeping, legal, or
2-14 accounting services related to bingo, fees in amounts authorized by
2-15 the commission for callers, cashiers, and ushers, janitorial
2-16 services, child care services, and utility supplies and services,
2-17 if any, and license fees.
2-18 SECTION 3. Section 19a(d), Bingo Enabling Act (Article 179d,
2-19 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-20 (d) The following items of expense incurred or paid by an
2-21 organization in connection with bingo must be paid from the
2-22 organization's bingo account:
2-23 (1) advertising;
2-24 (2) security during a bingo occasion;
2-25 (3) the purchase and repair of bingo supplies and
2-26 equipment;
2-27 (4) prizes, other than authorized cash prizes;
3-1 (5) stated rental;
3-2 (6) bookkeeping, legal, or accounting services;
3-3 (7) fees for callers, cashiers, and ushers;
3-4 (8) license fees; <and>
3-5 (9) janitorial services; and
3-6 (10) child care services.
3-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-13 passage, and it is so enacted.