Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF0308

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 or authorized allowable expenses; 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 (pulltab) and tipboard tax, the definition of
gambling product, the combined receipts tax, and untaxed gambling product
assessments
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