Bill Text: MI SB0564 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Engrossed

Michigan Senate Bill 564 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Gaming: bingo and charitable gaming; millionaire party licenses; modify. Amends secs. 34 & 41 of 1972 PA 382 (MCL 432.134 & 432.141).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-20 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB0564 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-SB0564-Engrossed.html

SENATE BILL NO. 564

June 24, 2021, Introduced by Senators MACDONALD, BARRETT, IRWIN and BIZON and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

A bill to amend 1972 PA 382, entitled

"Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman bingo act,"

by amending sections 34 and 41 (MCL 432.134 and 432.141), as added by 2019 PA 159.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 34. (1) If the executive director determines that an applicant for a millionaire party license is a qualified organization and otherwise eligible and suitable and, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the applicant paid to this state a fee of $50.00 per day that the applicant proposes to conduct the millionaire party, the executive director may issue a millionaire party license to the applicant. Beginning with the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence and before January 1, 2024, the executive director shall waive the $50.00-per-day fee under this subsection.

(2) A Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a qualified organization may be issued up to 4 millionaire party licenses in 1 calendar year. In calendar years 2021, 2022, and 2023, a qualified organization may be issued up to 6 millionaire party licenses. Each license is valid for only 1 location as stated on the license.

(3) A millionaire party license may be issued for up to 4 consecutive days.

(4) The executive director shall not issue more than 1 millionaire party license to a qualified organization for any 1 day.

(5) The executive director shall not issue millionaire party licenses that would allow more than 2 millionaire party events to be conducted at a single location on the same date or at the same time.

(6) The Subject to subsection (7), the executive director shall not issue millionaire party licenses that would allow millionaire party events to be conducted more than 4 days per week at a single location.

(7) Beginning with the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection and before January 1, 2024, the executive director shall not limit the number of days per week that millionaire party events may be conducted at a single location.

(8) (7) A millionaire party license must state the hours for each event day on which the millionaire party may be conducted. The executive director shall not permit a millionaire party to begin before 8 a.m. or continue past 2 a.m. on the following day.

Sec. 41. (1) A millionaire party licensee shall ensure that an event conducted under the license is conducted in compliance with this act and the rules promulgated under this act.

(2) A millionaire party licensee shall post the license so that it is conspicuously visible at the location where the event is being conducted at all times during the event.

(3) A millionaire party licensee shall not conduct gaming under the license anywhere outside of the demarcated area approved by the executive director.

(4) A millionaire party licensee shall ensure that access to the demarcated area is controlled.

(5) A millionaire party licensee shall not allow an individual who is less than 18 years old to enter the demarcated area when gaming is being conducted there.

(6) If alcoholic beverages are served at an event, an individual in the demarcated area who is 18 years old or older but less than 21 years old must be identified by wearing a mark indicating that a member or agent of the millionaire party licensee has verified the individual's age and identification.

(7) A Except as otherwise provided in subsection (8), a millionaire party licensee shall not receive more than $20,000.00 in exchange for imitation money or chips on any day under the license. However, if the licensee conducts the millionaire party without using dealers from a supplier and owns the location at which the millionaire party is held and if the license is for fewer than 4 days of gaming, the daily limit under this subsection is determined by dividing $80,000.00 by the number of days of gaming allowed under the license.

(8) Beginning with the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection and before January 1, 2024, a millionaire party licensee shall not receive more than $30,000.00 in exchange for imitation money or chips on any day under the license. However, if the licensee conducts the millionaire party without using dealers from a supplier and owns the location at which the millionaire party is held and if the license is for fewer than 4 days of gaming, the daily limit under this subsection is determined by dividing $120,000.00 by the number of days of gaming allowed under the license.

(9) (8) A millionaire party licensee may conduct a charity game as provided in section 7b and may conduct a numeral game as provided in section 7c. If a millionaire party licensee conducts a charity game or a numeral game, the executive director has sole enforcement and supervision authority over the conduct of the game.