Bill Text: TX HB4040 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of sports betting web sites, providing penalties; requiring a license; allowing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB4040 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB4040-Introduced.html
By: Herrero | H.B. No. 4040 |
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relating to the licensing and regulation of sports betting web | ||
sites, providing penalties; requiring a license; allowing a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2502, Occupations Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2502.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "License" means a license, certificate, registration, | ||
permit, or other authorization that: | ||
(A) is issued by a licensing authority; and | ||
(B) a person or entity must obtain to practice or | ||
engage in a particular business, occupation, or profession. | ||
(2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Licensing | ||
and Regulation. | ||
(3) "Sports betting website" means an internet website that | ||
allows a user to make through use of the website a bet on the outcome | ||
of a sporting event or participation in a competition based on the | ||
performance of the players in a sporting event or series of sporting | ||
events. | ||
Sec. 2502.002. OPERATING SPORTS BETTING WEBSITE; LICENSE | ||
REQUIRED. (a) A person or entity must obtain a license issued by | ||
the department annually, if the person or entity operates a sports | ||
betting website. | ||
(b) The department shall adopt rules for the licensing of | ||
sports betting websites including charging a license fee. | ||
2502.003. OPERATING SPORTS BETTING WEBSITE WITHOUT A | ||
LICENSE; OFFENSE. (a) Unless licensed under Section 2502.002, a | ||
person or entity commits an offense under Section 47.02(a)(1), | ||
Penal Code. | ||
(b) An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class A | ||
misdemeanor. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |