Bill Text: TX SB282 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to limits on prizes for bingo games.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Referred to State Affairs [SB282 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB282-Introduced.html
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| By: Van de Putte | S.B. No. 282 | |
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| relating to limits on prizes for bingo games. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2001.420(b), Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) A [ |
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| may not offer or award on a single bingo occasion prizes with an | ||
| aggregate value of more than $2,500 for all bingo games other than: | ||
| (1) pull-tab bingo; or | ||
| (2) bingo games that award individual prizes of $50 or | ||
| less. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
