Relating to gambling; providing for the location of state lottery gaming machines at licensed racetracks (racino), authorizing a state lottery director contract with the licensee, specifying certain contract content and deposit requirements, authorizing director contract cancellation, suspension or refusal to renew under certain conditions; requiring gaming machines location approval by the city or town of racetrack location; specifying certain gaming machine operation requirements; regulating prizes; prohibiting the extension of credit and play by minors or lottery employees and families; specifying certain requirements of the director and the licensee relating to compulsive gambling, requiring licensee establishment of a proactive plan and an annual director progress and performance report to the legislature; prohibiting local regulation; requiring the racing commission to require the licensee to reimburse the commission for personnel and regulation costs; establishing horse racing purse payments through a gaming machine revenues set aside; imposing a tax on gaming machine and card club revenue; eliminating the card club table limit; excluding wagering losses from recovery actions and plays from the definition of bets for gambling crimes purposes; authorizing the racing commissioner to authorize gaming machine location contractees to conduct Indian casino games, requiring adoption of game procedures by the commission, imposing a tax on game receipts, requiring a horse racing purse set aside; requiring director submission of an operations budget to the commissioner of finance and exempting amounts spent by the director for the operation of gaming machines in certain fiscal years from the maximum amount set in law for operation of the lottery; severability and savings clause
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