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2021 SESSION
SB 1465 Illegal gambling; skill games, definitions, enforcement by localities and Attorney General.
Introduced by: Bryce E. Reeves | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (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 up to $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
- 01/22/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21102212D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21102212D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/22/21 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 21102212D
- 01/22/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/01/21 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with amendments (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/03/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/04/21 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/04/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1465E
- 02/04/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21102212D-E
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote