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2020 SESSION
HB 1690 Charitable gaming; increase in certain maximum allowable prize amounts.
Introduced by: Mark L. Keam | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Charitable gaming; increase in certain maximum allowable prize amounts. Increases the maximum allowable amount for a single bingo door prize from $50 to $250 and the maximum allowable cumulative door prizes in any one bingo session from $250 to $500. The bill also increases the maximum allowable regular bingo or special bingo game prize from $100 to $200 and the prize for a single instant bingo, pull tab, or seal card from $1,000 to $2,000. The bill increases the maximum allowable prize for a bingo jackpot from $1,000 to $2,000 and the total allowable amount of bingo jackpot prizes awarded in any one session from $1,000 to $2,000. The bill also increases from $100 to $200 the allowable amount of increase of a progressive prize per session in certain progressive bingo games. The bill directs the Charitable Gaming Board to convene a stakeholder work group to review the current limitations on prize amounts and provide any recommendations to the General Assembly by November 30, 2020. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2021 Session of the General Assembly.
FULL TEXT
- 01/17/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20104802D pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1690ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/09/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0980) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/17/20 House: Presented and ordered printed 20104802D
- 01/17/20 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/24/20 House: Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming
- 02/04/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/20 House: Reported from General Laws (19-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/20 House: Read first time
- 02/10/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/11/20 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/20 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/12/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/18/20 Senate: Assigned GL&T sub: Gaming
- 02/19/20 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/26/20 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/28/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/28/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/28/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (32-Y 3-N)
- 03/02/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/02/20 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 1-N)
- 03/02/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 1-N)
- 03/05/20 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1690ER)
- 03/06/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/12/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 04/09/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 980 (effective - see bill)
- 04/09/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0980)