1-1     By:  Lucio                                              S.B. No. 22

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 9, 1997; April 11, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     May 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 1; May 18, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 22                  By:  Gallegos

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the regulation of the use of bingo card-minding devices

1-11     and to certain persons authorized to use such devices.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (v), Section 11, Bingo Enabling Act

1-14     (Article 179d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read

1-15     as follows:

1-16           (v)  A person may not use a card-minding device:

1-17                 (1)  to generate or determine the random letters,

1-18     numbers, or other symbols used in playing the bingo card played

1-19     with the device's assistance;

1-20                 (2)  as a receptacle for the deposit of tokens or

1-21     money, including coins or paper currency, in payment for playing

1-22     the bingo card played with the device's assistance; or

1-23                 (3)  except as provided by Section 13e(i) of this Act,

1-24     as a dispenser for the payment of a bingo prize, including coins,

1-25     paper currency, or any thing of value for the bingo card played

1-26     with the device's assistance.  No more than 40 [30] percent of the

1-27     individuals attending a [gross bingo game sales at each] bingo

1-28     occasion, based on the average of the two quarterly attendance

1-29     reports that have been most recently submitted to the commission by

1-30     the authorized organization, may use [can be on] electronic or

1-31     mechanical card-minding devices.  This provision does not

1-32     include[,] pull-tabs, instant bingo tickets, or break-open bingo

1-33     games.

1-34           SECTION 2.  Section 13e, Bingo Enabling Act (Article 179d,

1-35     Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding Subsections

1-36     (i) through (l) to read as follows:

1-37           (i)  Section 11(v)(3) of this Act does not apply to a system

1-38     service provider.

1-39           (j)  A system service provider may use bar codes on bingo

1-40     paper as a means of providing accurate tracking, registering, and

1-41     accounting records.

1-42           (k)  A system service provider may purchase goods or services

1-43     from a licensed manufacturer.

1-44           (l)  The commission shall include a system service provider

1-45     as a member of a bingo advisory committee appointed under Section

1-46     43 of this Act.

1-47           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1997.

1-48           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-49     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-50     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-51     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-52     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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