CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5330

 

 

                    Chapter 38, Laws of 1997

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

 

 

AUTHORIZING GOLFING SWEEPSTAKES CHARITABLE EVENTS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the Senate February 28, 1997

  YEAS 34   NAYS 13

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 8, 1997

  YEAS 78   NAYS 19

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5330 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

           MIKE O'CONNELL

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved April 16, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.   

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 16, 1997 - 6:12 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5330

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Senators Sellar, Snyder and McCaslin

 

Read first time 01/23/97.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

 

 

Allowing another type of golfing sweepstakes.  


    AN ACT Relating to golfing sweepstakes; and amending RCW 9.46.0341.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9.46.0341 and 1987 c 4 s 32 are each amended to read as follows:

    The legislature hereby authorizes bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct, without the necessity of obtaining a permit or license to do so from the commission, golfing sweepstakes permitting wagers of money, and the same shall not constitute such gambling or lottery as otherwise prohibited in this chapter, or be subject to civil or criminal penalties thereunder, but this only when the outcome of such golfing sweepstakes is dependent upon the score, or scores, or the playing ability, or abilities, of a golfing contest between individual players or teams of such players, conducted in the following manner:

    (1) Wagers are placed by buying tickets on any players in a golfing contest to "win," "place," or "show" and those holding tickets on the three winners may receive a payoff similar to the system of betting identified as parimutuel, such moneys placed as wagers to be used primarily as winners' proceeds, except moneys used to defray the expenses of such golfing sweepstakes or otherwise used to carry out the purposes of such organization; or

    (2) Participants in any golfing contest(s) pay a like sum of money into a common fund on the basis of attaining a stated number of points ascertainable from the score of such participants, and those participants attaining such stated number of points share equally in the moneys in the common fund, without any percentage of such moneys going to the sponsoring organization; ((and)) or

    (3) An auction is held in which 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, except moneys used to defray the expenses of the golfing sweepstakes or otherwise used to carry out the purposes of the organizations; and

    (4) Participation is limited to members of the sponsoring organization and their bona fide guests.


    Passed the Senate February 28, 1997.

    Passed the House April 8, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 16, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 16, 1997.