Amendment C - Bingo Raffles Allow Paid Help and Repeal Five-Year Minimum

Summary

Amendment C is an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the conduct of charitable gaming activities, and, allowing bingo-raffle licensees to hire managers and operators of games. Additionally, the amendment reduces the required period of a charitable organization''s continuous existence before obtaining a charitable gaming license.

A "YES" vote on Amendment C is a vote in support of reducing the length of existence requirement for charitable organizations to obtain a charitable gaming license from five to three years and allowing these organizations to hire staff to operate such games.

A "NO" vote on Amendment C is a vote to maintain current Colorado Law requiring five years of continuous existence for charitable organizations seeking charitable gaming licenses and prohibiting the hiring of game managers by the organizations to operate such games.

Arguments

Bingo-raffle games are an opportunity for nonprofit organizations to raise funds for their programs. Allowing nonprofit organizations to compensate workers reduces the burden on nonprofits to provide volunteers to operate the games. Expanding licenses to newer nonprofit organizations removes a barrier and provides them with additional fundraising opportunities. By increasing access to bingo-raffle fundraising, this measure may help increase funding for nonprofit organizations., in support of Amendment C (Learn more)

Professionalizing bingo-raffle operations undermines their charitable fundraising purpose. Paying workers increases overhead to operate games, potentially reducing the amount of money nonprofit organizations are able to raise and dedicate to their core mission. By removing the requirement that workers be volunteers and expanding the number of nonprofits that participate, bingo-raffle games become more like for-profit gambling than charitable fundraising., in opposition to Amendment C (Learn more)

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