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2021 SESSION
HB 2168 Illegal gambling; skill games, enforcement by localities and Attorney General, civil penalty.
Introduced by: Don L. Scott | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Illegal gambling; skill games; civil penalty; enforcement by localities and Attorney General. Provides that any person who conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns a gambling device that is located in an unregulated location is subject to a civil penalty of $25,000. The bill provides that the Attorney General, an attorney for the Commonwealth, or the attorney for any locality may cause an action in equity to be brought in the name of the Commonwealth or of the locality, as applicable, to enjoin the operation of a gambling device in violation of this section and may request attachment against all such devices and any moneys within such devices. The bill provides that any civil penalties brought in the name of the Commonwealth shall be paid into the Literary Fund and that any civil penalties brought in the name of a locality shall be paid into the general fund of the locality.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101270D pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21101270D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101270D
- 01/12/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/19/21 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/29/21 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 House: Read first time
- 02/02/21 House: Read second time
- 02/02/21 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/02/21 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2168E
- 02/02/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21101270D-E
- 02/03/21 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/03/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/03/21 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/03/21 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N)