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AL SB311
Bill
AI Summary
SB311 Summary
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Prohibits gaming operators, management service providers, license holders, and their officers, employees, and affiliates from making campaign contributions to state or local candidates and political action committees to prevent corruption in gaming operations.
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Updates criminal penalties for unlawful gaming activity, elevating promoting unlawful gaming and conspiracy to promote unlawful gaming from Class A misdemeanors to Class D felonies, and reclassifying possession of gaming records and devices to Class C or D felonies.
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Creates eight new criminal offenses related to casino-style games and sports wagering, including cheating, using prohibited devices, manufacturing counterfeit chips, placing post-outcome wagers, and possessing devices designed to tamper with gaming equipment, each punishable as a Class D felony.
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Amends loitering statutes to criminalize loitering in public places for purposes of unlawful gaming and updates gaming-related definitions to distinguish between authorized gaming and unlawful gaming activities.
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Becomes effective upon ratification of the constitutional amendment proposed in SB319 creating the Alabama Gaming Commission.
Legislative Description
Lottery and gaming, certain campaign contributions by operator of gaming facilities prohibited under certain conditions, certain criminal penalties updated, to prescribe certain activity relating to gaming as unlawful and provide for criminal penalties, Secs. 13A-12-32 to 13A-12-39, inclusive, added; Secs. 11-47-111, 13A-12-29, 13A-12-50 to 13A-12-58, inclusive, 13A-12-70 to 13A-12-76, inclusive, 13A-12-90 to 13A-12-92, inclusive, repealed; Secs. 13A-11-9, 13A-12-20, 13A-12-21, 13A-12-22, 13A-12-23, 13A-12-24, 13A-12-25, 13A-12-26, 13A-12-27, 13A-12-28, 13A-12-30 am'd.
Gambling
Last Action
Pending third reading on day 29 Favorable from State Government with 1 substitute
5/4/2021