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Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0986

E Relating to gambling; clarifying the definition of unbanked games and defining
player pool for racetrack card clubs purposes; excluding tables used for
instruction, demonstrations and tournament play from the limit on the maximum
number of tables allowed, placing a certain condition on the exception for
tournament play; eliminating or increasing certain wager limits; requiring class
B licensees to report income generated by card clubs in an annual report to the
racing commission, requiring the report to account for costs of operation, taxes
paid, amounts paid to the breeders fund and net profits; increasing the amounts
of gross gambling receipts for licensed organization annual gambling tax
financial audit or review requirements purposes; expanding lawful purpose
expenditures to reimbursement for participation in certain military activities
in contiguous states, payment of all tax audit costs under certain conditions
and expenditures for grooming and maintaining all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trails
and increasing the percentage of gross profits from bingo allowed to be expended
for lawful purposes; authorizing organizations to expend gross profits from
lawful gambling to relieve the effects of natural disasters without approval of
the membership under certain conditions; modifying the authority of the gambling
control board to deny, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew organization licenses
or premises permits for illegal gambling activities; modifying licensed
organization employees registration form content requirements, requiring the
date of birth and eliminating the current photograph requirement; authorizing
organizations to conduct noon hour bingo under certain conditions; authorizing
organizations acceptance of checks for participation in raffles, requiring
organization reimbursement of gambling accounts for the amount of dishonored
checks; extending the time limit for city council or county board approval of
resolutions for gambling control board issuance or renewal of premises permits
or bingo hall licenses(ra, ja)