Bill Text: TX HB1186 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the prizes awarded in certain pull-tab bingo games.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1186 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1186-Introduced.html
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By: Kuempel | H.B. No. 1186 |
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relating to the prizes awarded in certain pull-tab bingo games. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2001.002, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subdivision (6-a) to read as follows: | ||
(6-a) "Carryover pull-tab bingo" means a form of | ||
pull-tab bingo that is played in successive event pull-tab bingo | ||
deals of the same form number and in which a portion of the bingo | ||
prize awarded to the winner of the event prize for each deal is paid | ||
into a jackpot prize, the winner of the event prize for each deal | ||
has the opportunity to win the jackpot prize, and the play continues | ||
until the jackpot prize is awarded. This term does not include a | ||
game played on a gambling device as defined by Section 47.01, Penal | ||
Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 2001.420(a) and (b), Occupations Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A bingo prize may not have a value of more than $750 for | ||
a single game, except that a jackpot prize awarded in a carryover | ||
pull-tab bingo game may not have a value of more than $10,000. | ||
(b) A person 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, including carryover pull-tab | ||
bingo; or | ||
(2) bingo games that award individual prizes of $50 or | ||
less. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2019. |