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OH HB421
Bill
Status
1/27/2010
Primary Sponsor
Daniel Dodd
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AI Summary
HB 421 Summary
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Permits licensed charitable organizations and bingo game operators to distribute instant bingo tickets as prizes or promotional items at no charge, modifying existing restrictions on ticket distribution.
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Increases the maximum number of bingo sessions a charitable organization may conduct from two to three in any seven-day period, with exceptions for volunteer firefighter and rescue service organizations that provide notification to the Attorney General.
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Raises the aggregate prize limit for bingo games (described in division S(1)) from $3,500 to $6,000 per session.
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Authorizes up to three charitable organizations to conduct bingo sessions at the same leased location in any calendar week (increased from one), allowing up to nine total sessions per week at a single premises.
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Allows landlords of bingo premises to lease equipment to charitable organizations conducting bingo, in addition to existing permissions to lease premises themselves.
Legislative Description
To allow the distribution of a free instant bingo ticket as a prize or promotional item, to modify the definition of "instant bingo," to eliminate a requirement relating to sales from a deal of instant bingo tickets, to increase from two to three the number of bingo sessions that a charitable organization may conduct in any seven-day period, to increase the aggregate prize limit distributed at a bingo session from $3,500 to $6,000, to authorize up to three charitable organizations to conduct bingo sessions at the same leased location in any calendar week, and to permit landlords to lease bingo equipment to a charitable organization.
Bingo law-miscellaneous revisions
Last Action
To State Government
1/27/2010