H.B. No. 914

	AN ACT
	relating to the regulation of bingo games.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 2001.305(b) and (c), Occupations Code,
	are amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Immediately after issuing [receiving] a license, the
	commission [a license holder] shall send a copy of the license to
	the appropriate governing body. The governing body shall file the
	copy of the license in a central file containing licenses issued
	under this chapter.
	(c)  Not later than the 10th day after the date a license is
	issued, the commission [license holder] shall give written notice
	of the issuance of the license to:
	(1)  the police department of the municipality in which
	bingo will be conducted, if bingo is to be conducted in a
	municipality; or
	(2)  the sheriff of the county in which bingo will be
	conducted, if bingo is to be conducted outside a municipality.
	SECTION 2.  Section 2001.313(h), Occupations Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(h)  A licensed authorized organization may employ an
	individual who is not on the registry established by this section as
	an operator, manager, cashier, usher, caller, or salesperson on a
	provisional basis if the individual is awaiting the results of a
	background check by the commission:
	(1)  for a period not to exceed 30 [14] days if the
	individual is a resident of this state; or
	(2)  for a period to be established by commission rule
	if the individual is not a resident of this state.
	SECTION 3.  Section 2001.419, Occupations Code, is amended
	by amending Subsections (d) and (e) and adding Subsection (f) to
	read as follows:
	(d)  If more than one bingo occasion is conducted at the same
	premises on the same day:
	(1)  the bingo occasions must be announced separately;
	(2)  the licensed times may not overlap; and
	(3)  notwithstanding Subsection (e), bingo cards may be
	sold during a bingo occasion for play during a subsequent bingo
	occasion that is scheduled to begin at the same premises in not more
	than eight hours after the sale of cards for the subsequent occasion
	begins.
	(e)  Bingo cards, pull-tab bingo tickets, and the use of
	card-minding devices [paper] for a bingo occasion may be sold at the
	licensed premises at any time beginning one hour before the bingo
	occasion and ending at the conclusion of the bingo occasion
	[begins].
	(f)  If pull-tab bingo tickets are sold by one licensed
	authorized organization that conducts consecutive bingo occasions
	during one day, the organization may account for and report all of
	the pull-tab bingo ticket sales for the occasions as sales for the
	final occasion.
	SECTION 4.  Section 2001.451(b), Occupations Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Except as provided by Section 2001.502(a), a [A]
	licensed authorized organization shall deposit in the bingo account
	all funds derived from the conduct of bingo, less the amount awarded
	as cash prizes under Sections 2001.420(a) and (b). Except as
	provided by Subsection (b-1), a deposit must be made not later than
	the third [second] business day after the day of the bingo occasion
	on which the receipts were obtained.
	SECTION 5.  Section 2001.502, Occupations Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	Sec. 2001.502.  PRIZE FEE.  (a) A licensed authorized
	organization or unit as defined by Section 2001.431 shall:
	(1)  collect from a person who wins a cash bingo prize
	of more than $5 a fee in the amount of five percent of the amount [or
	value] of the prize; and
	(2)  except as otherwise provided by this section,
	remit to the commission the amount of the [a] fee collected under
	Subdivision (1) [in the amount of five percent of the amount or
	value of all bingo prizes of more than $5 awarded].
	(b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(2), each quarter, a
	licensed authorized organization or unit that collects a prize fee
	under Subsection (a) for a bingo game conducted in a county or
	municipality that was entitled to receive a portion of a bingo prize
	fee as of January 1, 2019, shall remit 50 percent of the amount
	collected as the prize fee to the commission and:
	(1)  if the county or municipality in which the bingo
	game is conducted voted before November 1, 2019, to impose the prize
	fee, remit 50 percent of the amount collected as the prize fee to:
	(A)  the county that voted to impose the fee by
	that date, provided the location at which the bingo game is
	conducted is not within the boundaries of a municipality that voted
	to impose the prize fee by that date;
	(B)  the municipality that voted to impose the fee
	by that date, provided the county in which the bingo game is
	conducted did not vote to impose the fee by that date; or
	(C)  in equal shares, the county and the
	municipality, provided each voted to impose the fee before that
	date; or
	(2)  if neither the county or municipality in which the
	bingo game is conducted voted before November 1, 2019, to impose the
	prize fee, deposit the remainder of the amount collected as the
	prize fee in the general charitable fund of the organization or on a
	pro rata basis to the general funds of the organizations comprising
	the unit, as applicable, to be used for the charitable purposes of
	the organization or organizations.
	(c)  The governing body of a county or municipality that
	voted to impose a prize fee under Subsection (b)(1) may at any time
	vote to discontinue the imposition of the fee. If a county or
	municipality votes on or after November 1, 2019, to discontinue the
	fee, the fees to which the county or municipality, as applicable,
	was entitled before the vote shall be collected by the licensed
	authorized organization or unit as defined by Section 2001.431 and
	deposited as provided by Subsection (b)(2).
	(d)  A fee collected under Subsection (a) does not apply to:
	(1)  a merchandise prize awarded as a prize for winning
	a bingo game, including a bingo card, a pull-tab bingo ticket, a
	bingo dauber, or other bingo merchandise; or
	(2)  the use of a card-minding device awarded as a prize
	for winning a bingo game.
	SECTION 6.  Section 2001.504(a), Occupations Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A fee on prizes authorized or imposed under this
	subchapter is due and is payable by the license holder or a person
	conducting bingo without a license to the commission and county or
	municipality, as applicable, quarterly on or before the 25th day of
	the month succeeding each calendar quarter.
	SECTION 7.  The heading to Section 2001.507, Occupations
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 2001.507.  COLLECTION AND DEPOSIT [DISBURSEMENT] OF
	PRIZE FEE.
	SECTION 8.  Section 2001.507, Occupations Code, is amended
	by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
	follows:
	(a)  The commission shall deposit the revenue collected from
	the fee on prizes imposed by Section 2001.502 to the credit of [a
	special account in] the general revenue fund.
	(a-1)  The revenue collected by the commission from the fee
	on prizes imposed by Section 2001.502 is considered miscellaneous
	revenue for purposes of appropriations made to the commission under
	the General Appropriations Act for the administration of this
	chapter.
	SECTION 9.  Section 404.073(c), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c)  Interest that has been and that will be accrued or
	earned from deposits made under a law to which this subsection
	applies is state funds not subject to allocation or distribution to
	taxing units, cities, or transportation authorities under that law.
	This subsection applies to:
	(1)  Section 205.02, Alcoholic Beverage Code;
	(2)  [Section 2001.507, Occupations Code;
	[(3)] Section 403.105(d) of this code;
	(3) [(4)]  Sections 321.501 and 321.504, Tax Code;
	(4) [(5)]  Sections 322.301 and 322.304, Tax Code; and
	(5) [(6)]  Sections 323.501 and 323.504, Tax Code.
	SECTION 10.  The following provisions of the Occupations
	Code are repealed:
	(1)  Section 2001.103(a-1);
	(2)  Section 2001.104;
	(3)  Section 2001.313(b-3);
	(4)  Section 2001.437(i);
	(5)  Section 2001.503; and
	(6)  Sections 2001.507(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g),
	(h), and (i).
	SECTION 11.  (a) A county or municipality may receive a
	portion of the prize fee collected under Section 2001.502,
	Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, after the effective date
	of this Act only if:
	(1)  the county or municipality was entitled to receive
	a portion of a bingo prize fee as of January 1, 2019; and
	(2)  the governing body of the county or municipality:
	(A)  by majority vote of the members of the
	governing body approves the continued receipt of funds under that
	section and notifies the Texas Lottery Commission of that decision
	not later than November 1, 2019; and
	(B)  notifies each licensed authorized
	organization within the county's or municipality's jurisdiction, as
	applicable, of the continued imposition of the fee.
	(b)  Not later than October 1, 2019, the Texas Lottery
	Commission shall notify the governing body of a county or
	municipality that was entitled to receive a portion of the prize fee
	collected under Section 2001.502, Occupations Code, as that section
	existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, of the
	requirements for continued receipt of the prize fee under that
	section as provided in Subsection (a) of this section.
	SECTION 12.  Section 2001.305, Occupations Code, as amended
	by this Act, applies only to an authorized organization license or a
	commercial lessor license that is issued under Chapter 2001,
	Occupations Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	authorized organization license or a commercial lessor license
	issued before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
	as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
	that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 13.  (a) Except as otherwise provided by Subsection
	(b) of this section, this Act takes effect January 1, 2020.
	(b)  The following provisions take effect September 1, 2019:
	(1)  Section 2001.502(c), Occupations Code, as added by
	this Act;
	(2)  Section 2001.507(a), Occupations Code, as amended
	by this Act; and
	(3)  Section 2001.507(a-1), Occupations Code, as added
	by this Act.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 914 was passed by the House on April
	30, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 137, Nays 8, 2 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 914 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 102, Nays 37,
	2 present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 914 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor