Bill > HB4343

This bill amends existing West Virginia law regarding who can enter or remain in a designated gaming area, which is a facility where gambling is permitted. Specifically, it clarifies that individuals can enter or stay in these areas if they are a registered overnight guest at the historic resort hotel where the gaming facility is located, or if they are a registered participant at a convention or event held at that hotel, removing a previous condition that required a minimum number of occupied guest rooms for this provision to apply. It also allows members of certain homeowner or facility associations, or their overnight guests, to enter if the association existed before April 1, 2009. The bill also updates the age requirement to enter a gaming area, changing it from "twenty-one years of age" to "21 years old," and maintains other restrictions such as not being visibly intoxicated, not being deemed unruly or likely to violate gaming laws, and not being barred by the commission. Additionally, it prohibits employees of the commission and their immediate household members from gambling at the facility, and licensed limited gaming facility employees from wagering on table games at their respective facilities.

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