Relating to stadiums

ARTICLE 1 - MINNESOTA SPORTS FACILITIES AUTHORITY

Establishing the Minnesota sports facilities authority and prescribing responsibilities, membership, compensation, chair, bylaws, audit, employees, website, quorum, powers, and duties; including authority employees in the definition of state employees; providing a purpose and defining terms; requiring stadium construction at the stadium site in Minneapolis; specifying stadium design and construction; requiring commemorative bricks; providing for employment, stadium operations, capital improvements, operating expenses, criteria and conditions, and municipal activities; prohibiting local tax imposition; requiring the metropolitan sports facilities commission to pay authority operating expenses and transfer assets by a certain date; abolishing the metropolitan sports facility commission and transferring employees to the authority

ARTICLE 2 - STATE STADIUM FUNDING

Authorizing the issuance of appropriation bonds by Minnesota management and budget (MMB), imposing a surcharge on the sale and rental of suites for games and events at the stadium; specifying appropriations

ARTICLE 3 - CONFORMING CHANGES

Making statutory conforming changes; repealing certain statutory provisions relating to sports facilities

ARTICLE 4 - MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER

Modifying the Minneapolis sales tax to produce sufficient revenue and specifying a tax limit and specifying commissioner of revenue tax revenues application; allowing
Minneapolis excess tax revenues to first fund convention center debt; imposing
additional liquor taxes and extending liquor and lodging taxes; providing an
exemption from charter limitations and local sales tax requirements; severability clause

ARTICLE 5 - LAWFUL GAMBLING

Allowing extended hours for linked electronic device bingo games, expanding the electronic bingo device definition; defining electronic pull-tab device, electronic pull-tab game, and electronic pull-tab game system and expanding the gambling equipment definition; allowing electronic paddle wheels; prohibiting slot machines; allowing the gambling control board to adopt rules for electronic games; modifying provisions related to the disqualification, revocation, suspension, denial and censure of licenses; prohibiting distributors or distributor salesperson from also being linked bingo game providers; requiring distributor board notification of
electronic pull-tab games sale and transfer methods; requiring software
manufacturer submissions; specifying linked bingo game services requirements;
providing linked bingo game requirements; modifying the conduct of pull-tabs;
requiring licensed organization electronic format reporting; modifying linked
bingo prize limits; appropriating money to the gambling control board