By: Chisum H.B. No. 881
73R4014 LJD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prohibiting automated teller machines and other methods
1-3 of accessing cash or credit accounts at a racetrack.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.04(c), Texas Racing Act (Article 179e,
1-6 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The commission shall adopt rules prohibiting:
1-8 (1) an association from accepting a wager made on
1-9 credit; and
1-10 (2) automated teller <shall adopt rules prohibiting
1-11 automatic banking> machines, teller windows, or any other
1-12 mechanical system or personnel that allows an individual to
1-13 withdraw cash from a checking, savings, or credit card account
1-14 within the enclosure.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.