Bill Text: OR HB2899 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to advertising lottery games.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2899 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB2899-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                         House Bill 2899

Sponsored by Representative KENNEMER (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Prohibits advertising video lottery games on television.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to advertising lottery games; amending ORS 461.220.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 461.220 is amended to read:
  461.220. (1) Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon
State Lottery, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt
rules that specify the number and value of prizes for winning
tickets or shares in each lottery game including, without
limitation, cash prizes, merchandise prizes, prizes consisting of
deferred payments or annuities and prizes of tickets or shares in
the same lottery game or other lottery games conducted by the
Oregon State Lottery.
  (2) In each lottery game utilizing tickets, the following
information shall be printed on each ticket:
  (a) A close approximation of the odds of winning some prize or
some cash prize, as appropriate for the lottery game.
  (b) An approximation of a payout percentage that will be
returned to players in the form of prizes for the lottery game.
For online games, the approximation may be based on the average
payout percentage over several prior years.
  (c) The statement that 'Lottery games are based on chance,
should be played for entertainment only and should not be played
for investment purposes. '
  (3) A detailed tabulation of the estimated number of prizes of
each particular prize denomination that are expected to be
awarded in each lottery game and the close approximation of the
odds of winning such prizes shall be available at each location
at which tickets or shares in such lottery games are offered for
sale to the public.
  (4) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the
commission may specify by rule the number and value of prizes for
lottery games that use video devices or that use tickets or
shares that allow a player to manually reveal covered play
symbols, or the commission may make such information available at
each location that offers such games using video devices, tickets
or shares for sale to the public.
   { +  (5) The commission may not authorize television
advertising for video lottery games. + }

    { - (5) - }   { + (6) + } All television, radio and newspaper
advertising of a lottery game shall include a disclaimer
representing a close approximation of the odds of winning some
prize and an approximation of the amount that will be returned to
the players in the form of prizes for the game in the following
words: 'The odds of winning some prize are one in (some number).
The prize payout percentage is (some number).' where the numbers
stated represent a close approximation of the odds of winning
some prize and the prize payout percentage. However, this
subsection does not apply to advertising the purpose of which is
to advertise the location where tickets may be purchased or to
provide information about the winners.
    { - (6) - }   { + (7) + } All television, radio and newspaper
advertising of lottery games funded by the lottery commission,
including advertising that is intended to indicate where tickets
may be purchased or to provide information about prize winners,
shall include the disclaimer that 'Lottery games are based on
chance, should be played for entertainment only and should not be
played for investment purposes. '
    { - (7) - }   { + (8) + } All television, radio and newspaper
advertising intended to publicize projects or programs funded by
lottery dollars shall include the disclaimer that 'Lottery games
are based on chance and should be played for entertainment only.
' However, this subsection does not apply to any such advertising
that has the sole purpose of educating the public about gambling
addiction or available treatments.
    { - (8) - }   { + (9) + } All billboard advertising intended
to promote a lottery game, to indicate where tickets may be
purchased or to provide information about prize winners shall
include the disclaimer that 'Lottery games should not be played
for investment purposes. '
    { - (9) - }   { + (10) + } All billboard advertising intended
to publicize projects or programs funded by lottery dollars shall
include the disclaimer that 'Lottery games should be played for
entertainment only. '
    { - (10) - }   { + (11) + } A disclaimer required by this
section to be included in a written advertisement shall be of a
size and in a form that allows an individual to readily notice
and read the statement. A disclaimer required by this section to
be included in a television or radio advertisement shall be
spoken aloud and, in the case of television, must also be
displayed visually in a form that allows an individual to readily
notice and read the statement.
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