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House Bill 1824 — Shooting Sports and Activities Sweepstakes (Washington, 2023 Regular Session)

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House Bill 1824 of the State of Washington's 68th Legislature, 2023 Regular Session, introduced by Representatives Eslick, Chapman, and Volz. The bill was read first time on February 13, 2023 and referred to the Committee on Regulated Substances & Gaming. Its title states that it relates to authorizing bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct shooting sports and activities sweepstakes and to adding a new section to chapter 9.46 RCW. The new section provides that such sweepstakes, conducted in the manner it describes, are not gambling or lottery under the chapter and need no permit or license from the commission, and it limits participation to members of the sponsoring organization and their bona fide guests.

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     H-1192.2

                                HOUSE BILL 1824


     State of Washington       68th Legislature        2023 Regular Session

     By Representatives Eslick, Chapman, and Volz

     Read first time 02/13/23.      Referred   to   Committee   on   Regulated
     Substances & Gaming.




1        AN ACT Relating to authorizing bona fide charitable or nonprofit
2    organizations to conduct shooting sports and activities sweepstakes;
3    and adding a new section to chapter 9.46 RCW.


 4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:


 5       NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 9.46 RCW
 6   to read as follows:
 7       (1) The legislature hereby authorizes bona fide charitable or
 8   nonprofit organizations to conduct, without the necessity of
 9   obtaining a permit or license to do so from the commission, shooting
10   sports and activities sweepstakes permitting wagers of money, and the
11   same shall not constitute gambling or lottery as otherwise prohibited
12   in this chapter, or be subject to civil or criminal penalties
13   thereunder, but this only when the outcome of such sweepstakes is
14   dependent upon the score, or scores, or the shooting ability, or
15   abilities, of a shooting sports contest between individual shooters
16   or teams of such shooters, conducted in the following manner:
17       (a) Wagers are placed by buying tickets on any players in a
18   shooting sports contest to "win," "place," or "show" and those
19   holding tickets on the three winners may receive a payoff similar to
20   the system of betting identified as parimutuel, such moneys placed as
21   wagers to be used primarily as winners' proceeds, except moneys used
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 1   to defray the expenses of such shooting sports contest or otherwise
 2   used to carry out the purposes of such organization; or
 3       (b) Participants in any shooting sports contest(s) pay a like sum
 4   of money into a common fund on the basis of attaining a stated number
 5   of points ascertainable from the score of such participants, and
 6   those participants attaining such stated number of points share
 7   equally in the moneys in the common fund, without any percentage of
 8   such moneys going to the sponsoring organization; or
 9       (c) An auction is held in which persons may bid on the shooters
10   or teams of shooters in the shooting sports contest, and the person
11   placing the highest bid on the shooter or team that wins the shooting
12   sports contest receives the proceeds of the auction, except moneys
13   used to defray the expenses of the shooting sports sweepstakes or
14   otherwise used to carry out the purposes of the organizations; and
15       (d) Participation is limited to members of the sponsoring
16   organization and their bona fide guests.
17       (2) For purposes of this section, "shooting sports" means
18   shooting sports and activities such as target shooting, skeet, trap,
19   sporting clays, "5" stand, and archery.

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