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MT HB374

Bill

Status

Failed

5/20/2025

Primary Sponsor

Alanah Griffith

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new "expanded casino night" category that nonprofit organizations may conduct once per year, in addition to regular casino nights

  • Expanded casino nights permit games normally prohibited in Montana, including blackjack, twenty-one, jacks or better, baccarat, chemin de fer, roulette, craps, hazard, chuck-a-luck, and box faro

  • Authorizes use of gambling equipment typically classified as illegal devices (roulette wheels, craps tables, faro boxes) during expanded casino nights

  • Regular casino nights remain limited to live card games authorized under existing law, live bingo and keno, and raffles

  • Amends MCA sections 23-5-112 (definitions) and 23-5-702 (casino night authorization) to accommodate the expanded casino night provisions

Legislative Description

Revise gambling laws

Gambling

Last Action

(H) Died in Process

5/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Business & Labor2/3/2025

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