Bill Text: WV SB281 | 2017 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Increasing number of limited video lottery machines allowed at retail location
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Committed to Rules on 3rd reading [SB281 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2017-SB281-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 281
By Senators Boso, Stollings, Takubo, Maroney and Trump
[Originating in the Committee on Finance; reported on March 23, 2017]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-22B-1101 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing the number of limited video lottery terminals allowed at a retail location; increasing the number of limited video lottery terminals permitted on the premises of certain tax exempt organizations; and requiring Lottery Commission to conduct a bid for permits held by current permit holders expiring June 30, 2021, prior to September 1, 2017.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §29-22B-1101 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 22B. LIMITED VIDEO LOTTERY.
Part XI. Allocation and Distribution of Video Lottery Terminals.
§29-22B-1101. Limitation on number and location of video lottery terminals.
(a) The Lottery Commission may not authorize the placement of more than nine thousand video lottery terminals in restricted access adult-only facilities in this state.
(b) No person may directly
or indirectly operate more than seven and one-half percent of the number of
video lottery terminals authorized in this section, which shall may
only be located only in restricted access adult-only facilities.
(c) No licensed limited
video lottery retailer may be authorized to have on the premises for which the
license was issued more than five seven video lottery terminals
except that a fraternal society or veterans’ organization that is: (A) A
fraternal beneficiary society that is exempt from federal income tax under
section 501(c)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; (B) a
domestic fraternal society that is exempt from federal income tax under section
501(c)(10); or (C) a veterans’ organization that is exempt from federal income
tax under section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code, may be authorized to
have on the premises for which the license was issued not more than ten twelve
video lottery terminals.
(d) To help accommodate the change in the number of terminals authorized by the amendment to this section enacted during the 2017 regular session of the Legislature, the commission shall conduct a bid no later than September 1, 2017, for permits expiring June 30, 2021, which bid is open to current permit holders only and which shall be conducted in accordance with sections one thousand one hundred six, one thousand one hundred seven and one thousand one hundred nine of this article.
