Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF2930

Relating to gambling;

ARTICLE 1 - VIDEO LOTTERY TERMINALS

Authorizing and
providing for the director of the state lottery to enter into
contracts with
certain on-sale alcoholic beverage retailers for the placement
and maintenance
of video lottery terminals on the premise; specifying certain procedures,
restrictions and authorizing inspections without notice; defining or redefining
certain terms; providing for the payment of investigation and background check
costs relating to owning and operating the terminals and for retention of a
certain percentage of net terminal income by lottery retailers as commission;
requiring transmission of a portion to the licensed organizations conducting
lawful gambling on the premises; restricting the expenditure of money received
by licensed organizations from, net video lottery terminal income to lawful
purposes; prohibiting local regulation; specifying certain lottery terminal
specification requirements; limiting the amount allowed to be played and
specifying a maximum prize amount; providing for testing and examination of the
terminals; authorizing the director to deactivate the terminals without
notice
for certain retailer violations; providing for the payment of video
lottery
credit receipts; requiring retailer payment of unclaimed prizes to the
lottery;
excluding winnings from tax or debt withholding requirements; requiring display
on the terminals of the approximate odds of winning; specifying the win
percentage for lottery prize fund deposit purposes; limiting the amount of net
terminal income allowed to be spent for operation of the terminals; requiring
the director to remit a certain percentage of net terminal income from the
lottery operations account to be held in trust by the commissioner of human
services in a compulsive gambling trust account to be used after a certain date;
prohibiting play by minors; expanding the crime of state lottery fraud to
certain credit receipt violations and to tampering with the terminals; exempting
the terminals from the definition of gambling device for gambling crimes
purposes; exempting gross receipts from operation of the terminals from the
in
lieu sales tax; requiring the lottery director to submit a budget for
the
operation of video lottery terminals to the commissioner of finance;
repealing the pull tab and tipboard tax, the definition of gambling product, the
combined receipts tax and untaxed gambling product assessments

ARTICLE 2 -
ELECTRONIC LINKED BINGO

Providing for linked bingo on an electronic bingo
device; modifying the use of an electronic bingo device; specifying gross profit
allocation from the operation of an electronic bingo device; modifying certain
definitions; specifying linked bingo prize amounts

ARTICLE 3 - ELECTRONIC
PULL TABS

Authorizing gambling control board to adopt rules for electronic
pull-tab games; requiring rules to follow guidelines allowed for the conduct of
pull-tabs; specifying additional guidelines; requiring board to
examine
prototypes of electronic pull-tab devices
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