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.
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