BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 2570 By: Kuempel Licensing & Administrative Procedures Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are concerns about the decline of charitable bingo in Texas due to competition from other gambling-related activities. H.B. 2570 seeks to address these concerns by providing for a carryover pull-tab bingo game as a form of pull-tab bingo, including setting the maximum prize value for a game. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 2570 amends the Occupations Code to set $10,000 as the maximum value for a jackpot prize awarded in a single carryover pull-tab bingo game and to clarify that carryover pull-tab bingo is excepted from the prohibition against offering or awarding prizes with an aggregate value of more than $2,500 on a single bingo occasion. The bill defines "carryover pull-tab bingo" and excludes games played on a gambling device from that definition. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2021.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 2570
By: Kuempel
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 2570
By: Kuempel
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are concerns about the decline of charitable bingo in Texas due to competition from other gambling-related activities. H.B. 2570 seeks to address these concerns by providing for a carryover pull-tab bingo game as a form of pull-tab bingo, including setting the maximum prize value for a game.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 2570 amends the Occupations Code to set $10,000 as the maximum value for a jackpot prize awarded in a single carryover pull-tab bingo game and to clarify that carryover pull-tab bingo is excepted from the prohibition against offering or awarding prizes with an aggregate value of more than $2,500 on a single bingo occasion. The bill defines "carryover pull-tab bingo" and excludes games played on a gambling device from that definition.
EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2021.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
There are concerns about the decline of charitable bingo in Texas due to competition from other gambling-related activities. H.B. 2570 seeks to address these concerns by providing for a carryover pull-tab bingo game as a form of pull-tab bingo, including setting the maximum prize value for a game.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 2570 amends the Occupations Code to set $10,000 as the maximum value for a jackpot prize awarded in a single carryover pull-tab bingo game and to clarify that carryover pull-tab bingo is excepted from the prohibition against offering or awarding prizes with an aggregate value of more than $2,500 on a single bingo occasion. The bill defines "carryover pull-tab bingo" and excludes games played on a gambling device from that definition.
EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2021.