1-1 By: Haggerty, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh) H.B. No. 641
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 17, 1997;
1-3 March 18, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the maximum value of a raffle prize.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Sections 3(g) and (k), Charitable Raffle Enabling
1-11 Act (Article 179f, Revised Statutes), are amended to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (g) A prize offered or awarded at the raffle may not be
1-14 money. Except as provided by Subsection (k) of this section, the
1-15 value of a prize that is offered or awarded at the raffle and that
1-16 is purchased by the organization or for which the organization
1-17 provides any consideration may not exceed $50,000 [$25,000].
1-18 (k) A prize may consist of one or more tickets in the state
1-19 lottery authorized by Chapter 466, Government Code [the State
1-20 Lottery Act (Article 179g, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and its
1-21 subsequent amendments], with a face value of $50,000 [$25,000] or
1-22 less, without regard to whether a prize in the lottery game to
1-23 which the ticket or tickets relate exceeds $50,000 [$25,000].
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30 passage, and it is so enacted.
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