SB144 (2015) Detail

Relative to carry-over cover-all bingo.


SB 144 - AS INTRODUCED

2015 SESSION

15-0312

08/04

SENATE BILL 144

AN ACT relative to carry-over cover-all bingo.

SPONSORS: Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Hosmer, Dist?7; Sen. Little, Dist 8; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. Irwin, Sull 9

COMMITTEE: Ways and Means

ANALYSIS

This bill:

I. Defines shared carry-over cover-all bingo.

II. Allows the racing and charitable gaming commission to adopt rules relative to carry-over cover-all and shared carry-over cover-all bingo.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15-0312

08/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT relative to carry-over cover-all bingo.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Shared Carry-Over Cover-All Games of Bingo. Amend RSA 287-E:1 by inserting after paragraph IX the following new paragraph:

X. “Shared carry-over cover-all” means a game conducted at one location and exhibited simultaneously at other locations by means of television or other means of electronic reproduction with the conduct of the game at the point of origin under rules adopted by the commission under RSA 541-A

2 Shared Carry-Over Cover-All Games of Bingo. Amend RSA 287-E:3, XIV to read as follows:

XIV. A carry-over cover-all game or a shared carry-over cover-all game.

XV. Other matters related to the proper administration of this chapter.

3 Shared Carry-Over Cover-All Games of Bingo. Amend RSA 287-E:7, XV-XVI to read as follows:

XV. A progressive coverall game [or a shared carry-over coverall game]:

(a) May be played once during any given game date;

(b) Shall be played on the second or last coverall;

(c) Shall not have a total of prize and bonus combined exceeding $3,000; and

(d) May offer a predetermined consolation prize to the game winner who first achieves coverall.

XVI. A carry-over coverall game or a shared carry-over cover-all game:

(a) May be played once during any given game date.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, may allow prize money to accumulate until there is a winner.

(c) Shall award a predetermined consolation prize to the game winner who first achieves coverall, the consolation prize is paid from the accumulated carry-over.

(d) Shall award a prize which shall be taxed under RSA 287-E:8.

4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.