By Torres                                             H.B. No. 3371

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the regulation of electronic and mechanic card-minding

 1-3     devices.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 11, Subsection (v) of the Bingo Enabling

 1-6     Act (Article 179d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           A person may not use a card-minding device:

 1-9                 (1)  to generate or determine the random letters,

1-10     numbers, or other symbols used in playing the bingo card played

1-11     with the device's assistance;

1-12                 (2)  as a receptacle for the payment of a bingo prize,

1-13     including coins or paper currency, in payment for playing the bingo

1-14     card played with the device's assistance;

1-15                 (3)  as a dispenser for the payment of a bingo prize,

1-16     including coins, paper currency, or any thing of value for the

1-17     bingo card played with the device's assistance.  [No more than 30

1-18     percent of gross bingo sales at each bingo occasion can be on

1-19     electronic or mechanical card-minding devices.  This provision does

1-20     not include, pull-tabs, instant bingo tickets, or break-open bingo

1-21     games.]  No more than 40 percent of the bingo occasion's

1-22     attendance, based on the licensed authorized organization's

 2-1     previous quarterly reports, can be on electronic or mechanical

 2-2     card-minding devices.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.