| TO: | Honorable Edmund Kuempel, Chair, House Committee on Licensing & Administrative Procedures |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HJR137 by Kuempel (Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing and regulating games of chance or other gaming activities at specific locations including dog or horse race tracks, destination resort casinos, or on Indian tribal lands.), As Introduced |
The cost to the state for publication of the resolution is $90,882.
The resolution would propose a constitutional amendment adding new Section 47a to Article III to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to authorize and regulate games of chance and other gaming activities when such gaming activity is approved in a defined area by local option election. The legislature would establish a state agency to administer any gaming activity so authorized. The legislature could provide for an allocation of revenues received by the state and local governments from such gaming activity on the basis of general law.
Any fiscal implications would depend on enabling legislation and local option elections.
The proposed amendment would be submitted to voters at an election to be held November 3, 2009.
| Source Agencies: | 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts, 362 Texas Lottery Commission
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, JRO, SD
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