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2021 SESSION
HB 1843 Charitable gaming; increase in certain maximum allowable prize amounts.
Introduced by: Mark L. Keam | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (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 allows up to 10 games per bingo session to feature a regular bingo or special bingo game prize of up to $200. The bill increases the prize for a single instant bingo, pull tab, or seal card from $1,000 to $2,000. Finally, the bill increases from $100 to $200 the allowable amount of increase of a progressive prize per session in certain progressive bingo games. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, beginning July 1, 2024 and at least once every five years thereafter, to convene a stakeholder work group to review the limitations on prize amounts and provide any recommendations to the General Assembly by November 30 of the year in which the stakeholder work group is convened.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101443D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103827D-H1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/07/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101443D
- 01/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/12/21 House: Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming
- 01/26/21 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/28/21 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (15-Y 6-N)
- 01/28/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21103827D-H1
- 02/01/21 House: Read first time
- 02/02/21 House: Read second time
- 02/02/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103827D-H1
- 02/02/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1843H1
- 02/03/21 House: Read third time and passed House (79-Y 20-N)
- 02/03/21 House: VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)