By Wilson H.B. No. 2227 74R7665 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the method of sale of charitable raffle tickets. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3, Charitable Raffle Enabling Act 1-5 (Article 179f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-6 amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (l) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (i) The organization conducting a raffle may not compensate 1-9 a person directly or indirectly for organizing or conducting a 1-10 raffle or for selling or offering to sell tickets to the raffle. 1-11 The organization may not permit a person who is not a member of the 1-12 organization or who is not authorized by the organization to sell 1-13 or offer to sell raffle tickets. 1-14 (l) An institution of higher education, as defined by 1-15 Section 61.003, Education Code, shall allow the sale of tickets to 1-16 a raffle by a student organization recognized by the institution at 1-17 any facility of the institution, subject to reasonable time, place, 1-18 and manner restrictions. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.