Bill Text: IN SB0025 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Charity gaming operations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-07 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy [SB0025 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-SB0025-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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SENATE BILL No. 25

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 4-32.2-5.

Synopsis: Charity gaming operations. Allows an operator of or a worker at a charity gaming event (other than a full-time employee of the qualified organization conducting the event) to receive remuneration of not more than $50 for conducting or assisting in conducting the event. Provides that meals, recognition dinners, and social events for operators and workers are permitted if they do not constitute an unreasonable expenditure in the conduct of an allowable event. Relocates the prohibition on paying volunteer ticket agents to the statute imposing other rules on the use of a volunteer ticket agent.

Effective: July 1, 2013.

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Randolph

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    January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Policy.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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SENATE BILL No. 25

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning gaming.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 4-32.2-5-12; (13)IN0025.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 4-32.2-5-12, AS AMENDED BY P.L.104-2011, SECTION 6, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 12. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) or (c), an operator, a worker, or a volunteer ticket agent who is not a full-time employee This subsection applies to an individual who is not a full-time employee of a qualified organization conducting an allowable event. The operator of, and a worker at, an allowable event may not receive remuneration of not more than fifty dollars ($50) for:
        (1) conducting; or
        (2) assisting in conducting;
an the allowable event.
    (b) In addition to providing the remuneration permitted by subsection (a), a qualified organization that conducts an allowable event may:
        (1) provide meals for the operators and workers during the allowable event; and

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        (2) provide recognition dinners and social events for the operators and workers;
if the value of the meals and social events does not constitute a significant inducement to participate an unreasonable expenditure in the conduct of the allowable event.
    (c) In the case of a qualified organization holding a PPT license, any employee of the qualified organization may:
        (1) participate in the sale and redemption of pull tabs, punchboards, and tip boards on the premises of the qualified organization; and
        (2) receive the remuneration ordinarily provided to the employee in the course of the employee's employment.

SOURCE: IC 4-32.2-5-27; (13)IN0025.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 4-32.2-5-27, AS ADDED BY P.L.104-2011, SECTION 8, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 27. The following apply to a qualified organization's use of a volunteer ticket agent:
        (1) Before using volunteer ticket agents to sell tickets to an allowable event, a qualified organization shall provide a list containing the following information to the commission:
            (A) The name, address, and telephone number of each retail establishment whose employees will serve as volunteer ticket agents.
            (B) The name of the general manager of each retail establishment listed under clause (A).
        (2) A volunteer ticket agent may not sell pull tabs, punchboards, or tip boards.
        (3) A volunteer ticket agent is not required to be a member in good standing of the qualified organization.
        (4) A volunteer ticket agent may participate as a patron in any allowable event conducted by the qualified organization.
        (5) A qualified organization must include on each ticket or entry sold by a volunteer ticket agent the name of the qualified organization, the date of the allowable event, and a valid license number for the allowable event.
        (6) All tickets sold by volunteer ticket agents must be numbered sequentially.
        (7) After tickets to the allowable event are sold, the qualified organization shall provide to the commission the name, address, and telephone number of each person who served as a volunteer ticket agent.
         (8) A volunteer ticket agent may not receive remuneration for selling tickets to an allowable event.