Financial: Charitable Gaming

A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new subsection to section 53-06.1-11.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the payment of a veterans organization's club expenses with net proceeds from charitable gaming.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:

SECTION 1. A new subsection to section 53-06.1-11.1 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and enacted as follows:

A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 53-06.1-12 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to allocation of veteran service organization gaming taxes.

NDCC 53-06.1-12 (5) The attorney general shall deposit fifty percent of gaming taxes, monetary fines, and interest and penalties collected from a veteran organization equally among the veterans' postwar trust fund and the department of veterans affairs fund 410 for use for homeless veterans' services to prevent and eliminate homelessness.

Relating to electronic pull tab payout limitations and the use of charitable gaming gross proceeds.

Relating to electronic pull tab device requirements.

Relating to gaming site number limits, electronic pull tab device limits, and manufacturing and distributing license fees.

Bill language:

• NDCC 53-06.1-03 (2) (a) add:  A governing body may approve site authorization only for an alcoholic beverage establishment or a bingo hall;
• NDCC 53-06.1-03 (7) add: An authorized site may have no more than ten electronic pull tab devices.

HOUSE ACTION:

• Removed all language and changed to a study.

SENATE ACTION: