Session Year 2005, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0007

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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