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MN HF565
Bill
Status
2/1/2021
Primary Sponsor
Bob Dettmer
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AI Summary
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Adds lawful gambling devices to prohibited purchases on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, including bingo cards and sheets, paper and electronic pull-tabs, jar tickets, paddle tickets, hard cards, tipboards, tipboard tickets, promotional tickets mimicking pull-tabs or tipboards, and raffle tickets.
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Adds lottery tickets to the list of prohibited EBT card purchases as defined in section 349A.01, subdivision 12.
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Maintains existing prohibitions on tobacco products and alcoholic beverages for EBT card purchases.
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Makes any prohibited purchases constitute unlawful use, resulting in disqualification of the cardholder from the program.
Legislative Description
Electronic benefit card prohibited purchases modified.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Finance and Policy
2/1/2021