By:  Lucio                                              S.B. No. 22

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the regulation of the use of bingo card-minding

 1-2     devices.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 11(v), Bingo Enabling Act (Article 179d,

 1-5     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (v)  A person may not use a card-minding device:

 1-7                 (1)  to generate or determine the random letters,

 1-8     numbers, or other symbols used in playing the bingo card played

 1-9     with the device's assistance;

1-10                 (2)  as a receptacle for the deposit of tokens or

1-11     money, including coins or paper currency, in payment for playing

1-12     the bingo card played with the device's assistance; or

1-13                 (3)  as a dispenser for the payment of a bingo prize,

1-14     including coins, paper currency, or any thing of value for the

1-15     bingo card played with the device's assistance.  No more than 40

1-16     [30] percent of the individuals attending a [gross bingo game sales

1-17     at each] bingo occasion, based on the average of the two quarterly

1-18     attendance reports that have been most recently submitted to the

1-19     commission by the authorized organization, may use [can be on]

1-20     electronic or mechanical card-minding devices.  This provision does

1-21     not include[,] pull-tabs, instant bingo tickets, or break-open

 2-1     bingo games.

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

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

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.