Senate Bill Report — HB 1824, As of March 20, 2023

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Senate Bill Report on HB 1824, as of March 20, 2023, for the Senate Committee on Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade, on an act relating to authorizing bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct shooting sports and activities sweepstakes. The bill authorizes such sweepstakes, permitting wagers of money, when the outcome depends on the scores or shooting abilities in a shooting sports contest, and defines shooting sports to include target shooting, skeet, trap, sporting clays, five stand, and archery. The report states that participation in these contests is limited to members of the sponsoring organization and their guests. The bill takes effect ninety days after adjournment of the session in which it is passed.

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Issuer: Congressional materials
Document type: Report
Date: 2023-03-23
Case: 2023 03 23 A31088 D259504 Bill Report 1824 Sba Bfgt 23

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SENATE BILL REPORT
HB 1824

As of March 20, 2023

Title: An act relating to authorizing bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct
shooting sports and activities sweepstakes.

Brief Description: Authorizing bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct
shooting sports and activities sweepstakes.

Sponsors: Representatives Eslick, Chapman and Volz.

Brief History: Passed House: 3/6/23, 90-5.
Committee Activity: Business, Financial Services, Gaming & Trade: 3/21/23.

Brief Summary of Bill

¢ Authorizes shooting sports and activities sweepstakes by bona fide
charitable or nonprofit organizations, permitting wagers of money, when
the outcome of the sweepstakes is dependent on the scores or the
shooting abilities of a shooting sports contest between individual
shooters or teams of shooters, when conducted in one of three ways.

* Defines shooting sports as activities such as target shooting, skeet, trap,
sporting clays, five stand, and archery.

¢ Establishes parameters around three authorized methods of conducting
shooting sports and activities sweepstakes.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, FINANCIAL SERVICES, GAMING & TRADE
Staff: Clinton McCarthy (786-7319)
Background: If an activity meets the definition of gambling in the Gambling Act, it is

prohibited unless authorized in law. Gambling is defined as staking or risking something of
value upon the outcome of a contest of chance or a future contingent event not under the

This analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative
members in their deliberations. This analysis is not part of the legislation nor does it
constitute a statement of legislative intent.

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person's control or influence, upon an agreement or understanding that the person or
someone else will receive something of value in the event of a certain outcome. Specific
activities are excluded from the definition, such as fishing derbies, pari-mutuel betting on
horse racing regulated under other statutes, and bona fide business transactions valid under
the law of contracts, including futures contracts for commodities. The Gambling Act
expressly authorizes certain gambling activities or specifies that certain activities do not
constitute gambling. Golfing sweepstakes are one of these activities.

Golf sweepstakes were authorized for bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to
conduct golfing sweepstakes in 1997, without having to obtain a permit or license to do so.
These games can be conducted in three different ways.

* participants buy tickets on players in a golfing contest to win, place, or show;

1. participants holding these tickets on the three winners may receive a payoff
similar to a perimutuel system;

2.moneys placed on wagers are supposed to be used primarily as winners'
proceeds except for defraying the costs of conducting the sweepstakes or
otherwise used to carry out the purpose of the bona fide charitable or nonprofit
organizations;

* participants pay a sum of money into a common fund on the basis of attaining a stated
number of points ascertainable from the score of participants, and those participants
attaining such stated number of points share equally in the moneys in the common
fund, without any percentage of moneys going to the sponsoring organizations; or

* an auction is held where persons may bid on the players or teams of players in the
golfing contest, and the person placing the highest bid on the player or team that wins
the golfing contest receives the proceeds of the auction less the moneys needed to
defray the game or otherwise carry out the purposes of the bona fide charitable or
nonprofit organizations.

Summary of Bill: The Legislature authorizes shooting sports and activities sweepstakes
for bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations. Shooting sports is defined to include
sports and activities such as target shooting, skeet, trap, sporting clays, five stand, and
archery. Much like golf sweepstakes contests authorized by the Legislature, these types of
contests can be conducted in three different ways:

* participants buy tickets on players in a shooting contest to "win, place, or show."

1. participants holding these tickets on the three winners may receive a payoff
similar to a perimutuel system;

2.moneys placed on wagers are supposed to be used primarily as winners'
proceeds except for defraying the costs of conducting the sweepstakes or
otherwise used to carry out the purpose of the bona fide charitable or nonprofit
organizations;

* participants pay a sum of money into a common fund on the basis of attaining a stated
number of points ascertainable from the score of participants, and those participants
attaining such stated number of points share equally in the moneys in the common
fund, without any percentage of moneys going to the sponsoring organizations; or

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* an auction is held where persons may bid on the players or teams of players in the
golfing contest, and the person placing the highest bid on the player or team that wins
the golfing contest receives the proceeds of the auction less the moneys needed to
defray the game or otherwise carry out the purposes of the bona fide charitable or
nonprofit organizations.

Participation in these contests is limited to members of the sponsoring organization and
their guests.

Appropriation: None.
Fiscal Note: Available.
Creates Committee/Commission/Task Force that includes Legislative members: No.

Effective Date: Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

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