80R8613 YDB-F
 
  By: Haggerty H.B. No. 2265
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the prizes awarded in a progressive bingo game.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 2001.002, Occupations Code, is amended
by adding Subdivisions (8-a), (13-a), and (23-a) to read as
follows:
             (8-a)  "Consolation prize" means a prize offered or
awarded by a licensed authorized organization to a player in a
progressive bingo game at a bingo occasion during which no player
wins the jackpot prize for the progressive bingo game.
             (13-a)  "Jackpot prize" means a prize offered or
awarded by a licensed authorized organization to the winner of a
progressive bingo game.
             (23-a)  "Progressive bingo game" means a bingo game in
which the prize amount may be increased over successive bingo
occasions of the same licensed authorized organization until a
player completes the winning pattern for the game specified by the
organization.
       SECTION 2.  Section 2001.420, Occupations Code, is amended
by amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
       (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] bingo prize
may not have a value of more than $750 for a single game.
       (b)  For bingo games other than pull-tab bingo or progressive
bingo games, a person may not offer or award on a single bingo
occasion prizes with an aggregate value of more than $2,500. A
jackpot prize or consolation prize offered or awarded in a
progressive bingo game during a bingo occasion is not included in
the aggregated value of prizes awarded at a single bingo occasion
for purposes of this subsection.
       (d)  A jackpot prize or consolation prize may not have a
value of more than $50,000 for a single progressive bingo game.
       SECTION 3.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the Texas Lottery Commission shall adopt the rules
necessary to implement the changes in law made by this Act to
Chapter 2001, Occupations Code.
       SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.