SB340: Bill Text

SB340,5,11 563.93 (4) (b) An organization that existed at least 5 years before the organization was issued a Class A license may offer tickets for sale for a proposed raffle up to one year before the date of the raffle drawing.

SB340,13 Section 13. 563.93 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,5,16 563.93 (4m) The organization that conducts a raffle under a Class A license shall provide the purchaser of a raffle ticket or calendar the purchaser's portion of the ticket or calendar before the raffle drawing is held, but need not provide it to the purchaser at the time of purchase.

SB340,14 Section 14. 563.93 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,5,18 563.93 (5) All raffle drawings raffles shall be held in public.

SB340,15 Section 15. 563.93 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,5,21 563.93 (6) All prizes shall be awarded. The purchaser of a ticket or calendar need not be present at the drawing raffle to win a prize.

SB340,16 Section 16. 563.93 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,5,24 563.93 (7) If a raffle drawing is canceled, the organization shall refund the receipts to the ticket or calendar purchasers.

SB340,17 Section 17. 563.93 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,6,3 563.93 (8) The organization that holds a raffle drawing shall furnish a list of prize winners to each ticket or calendar holder who provides the organization with a self-addressed stamped envelope and requests the list.

SB340,18 Section 18. 563.93 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,6,8 563.93 (9) If a person who holds a Class A license sells equal shares of a single ticket to one or more purchasers for a raffle, the person shall, prior to the date on which the raffle drawing for which the shares were sold is held, purchase any shares of the ticket that have not been sold.

SB340,19 Section 19. 563.935 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,6,10 563.935 (5) All raffle drawings raffles shall be held in public.

SB340,20 Section 20. 563.935 (6) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,6,18 563.935 (6) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the purchaser of a ticket must be present at the drawing time the raffle is held to win a prize, unless the purchaser gives the ticket to another person who may claim the prize on behalf of the purchaser, but only if that other person is present at the drawing raffle. If the purchaser of the ticket gives the ticket to another person to claim a prize on behalf of the purchaser, the organization conducting the raffle and the department shall not be held responsible or liable in any dispute regarding the ownership of the ticket.

SB340,21 Section 21. 563.935 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,6,22 563.935 (6) (b) Any organization conducting a raffle may, according to procedures determined by the organization, allow the purchaser of a ticket not to be present at the drawing time the raffle is held to win a prize.

SB340,22 Section 22. 563.935 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,7,3 563.935 (8) The date, time , and place of the drawing and raffle, the prizes to be awarded, and the prize amount or the methodology used to determine the prize amount shall be posted or announced before the drawing.

SB340,23 Section 23. 563.935 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,7,6 563.935 (9) If a raffle drawing is canceled, the organization shall refund the receipts to the ticket purchasers.

SB340,24 Section 24. 563.935 (10) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,7,10 563.935 (10) (intro.) A raffle that is not of the type that is described in s. 563.908 (2) and that is conducted under a Class B license to which all of the following apply is one raffle for purposes of s. 563.91:

SB340,25 Section 25. 563.98 (1) (f) of the statutes is created to read:

SB340,7,13 563.98 (1) (f) For raffles of the type described in s. 563.908 (2), an accounting of all sold and unsold tickets for each raffle.

SB340,26 Section 26. 945.01 (3) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB340,7,17 945.01 (3) (b) 1. A device used in conducting a bingo occasion or raffle event under ch. 563, used in conducting a lottery under ch. 565 or used in conducting a race under ch. 562.

SB340,27 Section 27. Initial applicability.

SB340,7,20 (1) The treatment of section 563.92 (3b) of the statutes first applies to applications that are submitted on the effective date of this subsection.

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