Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0964

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
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; 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; repealing the pull tab and tipboard tax
(mk)