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Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF3195

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 premises, 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
(ra)