AB953: Bill Text

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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

2009 Assembly BILL 953

April 14, 2010 - Introduced by Representatives Danou and Gunderson, cosponsored by Senators Holperin, Taylor, Grothman and Hansen. Referred to Committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security.

AB953,1,2 An Act to create 563.935 (10) of the statutes; relating to: the number of raffles permitted in a year.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a local religious, charitable, service, fraternal, veterans, or other not-for-profit organization may conduct a raffle if it obtains a raffle license from the Department of Administration. An organization may not conduct more than 200 raffles per year.

Under a Class A raffle, tickets may be sold before the day of the drawing. Under a Class B raffle, tickets may be sold only on the day of the drawing. This bill provides that a Class B raffle in which the raffle organizer holds separate drawings to award specified prizes or groups of prizes on the same date and at the same location and in which the ticket purchaser may select which drawing to enter is one raffle for purposes of the annual limit on the number of raffles that an organization may conduct.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB953, s. 1 Section 1. 563.935 (10) of the statutes is created to read:

AB953,1,5 563.935 (10) A raffle under a Class B license to which all of the following apply is one raffle for purposes of s. 563.91:

AB953,2,2 (a) More than one drawing is held and more than one prize is awarded on the same date and at the same location.

AB953,2,4 (b) Drawings for each prize or group of prizes are made from a container specific to each prize or group of prizes.

AB953,2,6 (c) The raffle ticket purchaser places his or her ticket in the container of his or her choice.

AB953,2,7 (End)