Bill Text: HI SB2197 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To Gambling Offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-25 - Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 05-01-24. [SB2197 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2197-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2197
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO GAMBLING OFFENSES.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 712-1220, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "advance gambling activity" to read as follows:

     ""Advance gambling activity".  A person "advances gambling activity" if the person:

     (1)  Engages in conduct that materially aids any form of gambling activity.  Conduct of this nature includes but is not limited to conduct directed toward:

          (A)  The creation or establishment of the particular game, contest, scheme, device, or activity involved;

          (B)  The acquisition or maintenance of premises, paraphernalia, equipment, or apparatus therefor;

          (C)  The solicitation or inducement of persons to participate therein;

          (D)  The actual conduct of the playing phases thereof;

          (E)  The arrangement of any of its financial or recording phases; or

          (F)  Any other phase of its operation; or

     (2)  Having substantial proprietary control or other authoritative control over premises being used with the person's knowledge for purposes of gambling activity, permits that activity to occur or continue [or makes no effort to prevent its occurrence or continuation]."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

 

Report Title:

Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Package; Criminal Offenses; Gambling

 

Description:

Amends the definition of "advance gambling activity".  (SD1)

 

 

 

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