Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0449

Relating to gambling; authorizing the state lottery to offer games involving
sports wagering and sports wagering pools; creating a Minnesota active
recreation fund for the deposit of proceeds from the games, restricting use to
sports programs for children, amateur sports facilities and hiking and bicycling
trails; authorizing sports bookmaking with a license from the state lottery
director, specifying certain application and investigation requirements and
providing for issuance, authorizing revocation or refusal to renew under certain
conditions,and a bond requirement; imposing a licensed sports bookmaking excise
tax on gross revenues of licensees for deposit in the active recreation fund;
requiring a director report to the legislature by a certain date on present
status and future prospects of legal and illegal sports bookmaking in the state

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