By Haggerty, et al. H.B. No. 641
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the maximum value of a raffle prize.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 3(g) and (k), Charitable Raffle Enabling
1-5 Act (Article 179f, Revised Statutes), are amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (g) A prize offered or awarded at the raffle may not be
1-8 money. Except as provided by Subsection (k) of this section, the
1-9 value of a prize that is offered or awarded at the raffle and that
1-10 is purchased by the organization or for which the organization
1-11 provides any consideration may not exceed $50,000 [$25,000].
1-12 (k) A prize may consist of one or more tickets in the state
1-13 lottery authorized by Chapter 466, Government Code [the State
1-14 Lottery Act (Article 179g, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and its
1-15 subsequent amendments], with a face value of $50,000 [$25,000] or
1-16 less, without regard to whether a prize in the lottery game to
1-17 which the ticket or tickets relate exceeds $50,000 [$25,000].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.