Amends TCA Title 3, Chapter 17.

Present law requires a nonprofit organization seeking to operate an annual event for the benefit of that organization located in this state to submit an annual event application to the secretary of state or the secretary of state's authorized representative ("secretary") by January 31 each year for the annual event period beginning July 1 of that calendar year and ending June 30 of the subsequent calendar year. In addition to the submission deadline described above, a nonprofit organization seeking to operate an annual event for the benefit of that organization located in this state may submit an annual event application to the secretary within five calendar days after April 10, 2023, for the annual event period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024. This bill changes the existing law by authorizing, instead, that a nonprofit organization seeking to operate an annual event for the benefit of that organization located in this state to submit an annual event application to the secretary within five calendar days after the effective date of this bill, for the annual event period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024. Present law also requires the secretary to review all annual event applications timely submitted and to transmit an omnibus list of qualifying applicants to the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives in an electronic format, as is required by the respective clerks, on or before March 8 of each year. The omnibus list must include, at a minimum, the name of the nonprofit organization, the name of the event, the type of lottery game, the event date for the event and the location or locations of the event. The omnibus list must list nonprofit organizations alphabetically by county in which the annual event is proposed to be operated. In addition to the omnibus listing transferred to the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives, the secretary must transfer an additional omnibus listing of any organizations approved pursuant to the above provisions for the annual event period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024. The list must be transferred in a manner consistent with this provision by twelve o'clock noon central daylight time within 10 calendar days after April 10, 2023. This bill changes the existing law by requiring that the list must be transferred in a manner consistent with the above provision by twelve o'clock noon central daylight time within 10 calendar days after this bill becomes law. ON FEBRUARY, 26, 2024, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 1651, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 applies this bill to annual events beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, and beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025.