1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; expanding permitted uses of raffle receipts for high 
1.3 	school activities;amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 609.761, subdivision 
1.4 	5.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 609.761, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 5.High school raffles. Sections 609.755 and 609.76 do not prohibit a raffle, as 
1.8 	defined in section 349.12, subdivision 33, conducted by a school district or a nonprofit 
1.9 	organization organized primarily to support programs of a school district, if the following 
1.10 	conditions are complied with:
1.11 	(1) tickets for the raffle may only be sold and the drawing conducted at a high school 
1.12 	event sponsored by a school district. All tickets must be sold for the same price;
1.13 	(2) tickets may only be sold to persons 18 years of age or older attending the event;
1.14 	(3) the drawing must be held during or immediately after the conclusion of the event;
1.15 	(4) one-half of the gross receipts from the sale of tickets must be awarded as prizes for 
1.16 	the raffle, and the remaining one-half may only be expended to defray the school district's 
1.17 	costs of sending event participants to high school activities held at other locations approved 
1.18 	by the school board; and
1.19 	(5) if a school district's or nonprofit organization's gross receipts from the conduct of 
1.20 	raffles exceeds $12,000 in a calendar year or $5,000 in a single raffle, the school district or 
1.21 	organization must report the following information to the Gambling Control Board annually: 
2.1 	the total amount of gross receipts received, the total expenses for the raffles, the total prizes 
2.2 	awarded, and an accounting of the expenditures from the gross receipts of the raffles.