NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/3/2013.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 13-1101
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Singer, Fields, Hullinghorst, Schafer;
      also SENATOR(S) Tochtrop.
      
      
      Concerning progressive raffles, and, in connection therewith,
           making an appropriation.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 12-9-107, add (13) (k),
      (13) (l), (13) (m), (13) (n), and (13) (o) as follows:
      
           12-9-107.  Persons permitted to conduct games of chance -
      premises - equipment - expenses - rules. (13) (k)  A bingo-raffle
      licensee may offer a progressive raffle in which a jackpot may be
      carried over and increased from one drawing to another until the
      jackpot is awarded. If the jackpot is not awarded at a drawing, the
      bingo-raffle licensee shall conduct a new drawing at the same
      location at a time and date determined by the bingo-raffle
      licensee.
      
           (l) (I)  A bingo-raffle licensee may award a consolation prize
      for a progressive raffle in which the jackpot is not won. The
      bingo-raffle licensee may designate the consolation prize as
      either a specified amount or a specified percentage of the gross
      proceeds collected from the sale of raffle tickets for a
      particular drawing. The bingo-raffle licensee may determine the
      amount of the jackpot based on the gross proceeds collected from
      the sale of raffle tickets for a particular drawing plus the value
      of the jackpot carried over from previous drawings in which the
      jackpot was not awarded.
      
           (II)  If the bingo-raffle licensee offers a consolation prize,
      the bingo-raffle licensee shall, before the drawing:
      
           (A)  Designate the specific amount or specific percentage of
      the gross proceeds collected from the sale of raffle tickets that
      the consolation prize equals; and
      
           (B)  Conspicuously display the amount or percentage of the
      gross proceeds collected that the consolation prize equals.
      
           (m)  The licensing authority may establish by rule the
      maximum jackpot that a bingo-raffle licensee may award for a
      progressive raffle; except that, notwithstanding paragraph (a) of
      this subsection (13), the maximum jackpot may not be less than
      fifteen thousand dollars. The maximum jackpot does not include
      the aggregate amount of consolation prizes awarded.
      
           (n)  The licensing authority may establish by rule the
      maximum number of progressive raffles that a bingo-raffle
      licensee may conduct simultaneously. To ensure that all prizes
      offered are timely awarded, the licensing authority may limit by
      rule the number of drawings that a bingo-raffle licensee may
      conduct before a jackpot must be awarded; except that the
      licensing authority may not limit the number of drawings to less
      than thirty.
      
           (o) (I)  The licensing authority may establish by rule the
      permitted methods of conducting a progressive raffle.
      
           (II)  The licensing authority may not prohibit those methods
      of conducting a progressive raffle in which the participant whose
      ticket number is drawn wins both a prize for the winning ticket
      number and a chance to win the jackpot.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
      department of state cash fund created in section 24-21-104 (3) (b), Colorado
      Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the department of state, for
      the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, the sum of $25,160, or so much
      thereof as may be necessary, for allocation to information technology
      services for contract programming services related to the implementation
      of this act.
      
           SECTION 3.  Effective date. This act takes effect January 1, 2014.
      
           SECTION 4.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                         John P. Morse
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO