By: Craddick H.B. No. 457
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to restrictions on the promotion and operation of
charitable raffles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 2002.054(a) and (b), Occupations Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(a) The organization may not:
(1) directly or indirectly, by the use of paid
advertising, promote a raffle through a medium of mass
communication, including television, radio, or newspaper;
(2) promote or advertise a raffle statewide, other
than on the organization's Internet website or through a
publication or solicitation, including a newsletter, social media,
or electronic mail, provided only to previously identified
supporters of the organization; or
(3) sell or offer to sell tickets for a raffle
statewide.
(b) Except as provided by this subsection, the [The]
organization may not compensate a person directly or indirectly for
organizing or conducting a raffle or for selling or offering to sell
tickets to a raffle. A member of the organization who is employed
by the organization may organize and conduct a raffle, but the
member's work organizing or conducting a raffle may not be more than
a de minimis portion of the member's employment with the
organization.
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, 2011.