By: Cain S.B. No. 1720
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of card-minding devices used to play
1-3 bingo.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 2001.409, Occupations
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A licensed authorized organization that offers [Not more
1-8 than 40 percent of the individuals attending a bingo occasion,
1-9 based on the average of two previously submitted quarterly reports,
1-10 may use] electronic or mechanical card-minding devices for the play
1-11 of a bingo game must also offer traditional bingo cards for the
1-12 play of the bingo game. [This subsection does not apply to
1-13 pull-tab bingo.]
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-15 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-16 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-17 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-18 Act takes effect October 1, 2001.