1-1 By: Wilson (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 2227 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995; 1-3 May 17, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; 1-4 May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, 1-5 Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the method of sale of charitable raffle tickets. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 3, Charitable Raffle Enabling Act 1-11 (Article 179f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-12 amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (l) to read as 1-13 follows: 1-14 (i) The organization conducting a raffle may not compensate 1-15 a person directly or indirectly for organizing or conducting a 1-16 raffle or for selling or offering to sell tickets to the raffle. 1-17 The organization may not permit a person who is not a member of the 1-18 organization or who is not authorized by the organization to sell 1-19 or offer to sell raffle tickets. 1-20 (l) An institution of higher education, as defined by 1-21 Section 61.003, Education Code, shall allow the sale of tickets to 1-22 a raffle by a student organization recognized by the institution at 1-23 any facility of the institution, subject to reasonable time, place, 1-24 and manner restrictions. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-31 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-32 * * * * *