Bill > HB315

This bill provides significant updates to Louisiana's charitable gaming laws, with a particular focus on supporting "children's charities" - defined as nonprofit organizations primarily dedicated to improving children's lives. The bill expands opportunities for these charities to conduct gaming activities like keno, bingo, and video bingo by mandating that local municipalities and parishes allow them to participate in or operate existing gaming locations. It provides several key protections and privileges for children's charities, including the ability to obtain non-commercial lessor licenses, have consecutive eight-hour gaming sessions within a 24-hour period, acquire new gaming machines, and be exempt from most local taxes and reporting requirements. The bill also adds new provisions for electronic gaming technologies like ticket-in-ticket-out systems and credit redemption terminals, and introduces a criminal penalty of at least one year of hard labor for employees convicted of stealing more than $2,500 in bingo proceeds. Additionally, the bill modifies existing tax exemption language for pull-tabs to include local sales and use taxation, and requires the Louisiana Law Institute to alphabetize and renumber definitions in the relevant statute. Overall, the legislation aims to provide more flexible and supportive regulations for charitable gaming, with a special emphasis on organizations focused on helping children.

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