Charitable Sports Raffle Act; established, penalties.

Charitable Sports Raffle Act established; penalties.Establishes the Charitable Sports Raffles Act for the purposeof authorizing athletic event drawings, defined in the bill, to beconducted by affiliated nonprofit organizations that conduct such drawings in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Departmentof Agriculture and Consumer Services. The bill places limits on whenand where an athletic event drawing may be held and requires theprize amount of any such drawing to be 50 percent of the total amountcollected from the sale of the tickets. The bill requires the organizationto donate a certain percentage of the remaining funds in accordancewith Department regulations and imposes certain civil and criminal penalties for violations of the provisions of the bill.