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OH SB186
Bill
Status
2/17/2010
Primary Sponsor
Bob Gibbs
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AI Summary
Sub. S.B. No. 186 Summary
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Authorizes charitable organizations to purchase, lease, and use instant bingo ticket dispensers to sell instant bingo tickets or cards, and specifies that such dispensers are not considered slot machines.
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Removes the two-year continuous existence requirement for veteran's organizations and the five-year continuous existence requirement for fraternal organizations to qualify as charitable organizations.
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Increases the maximum number of times a veteran's or fraternal organization may lease premises to charitable organizations for festivals with games of chance from four times to twelve times per year.
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Allows charitable organizations to deduct reasonable amounts of gross profit to pay real property taxes and assessments levied on premises where bingo is conducted as an allowable expense.
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Adds "instant bingo ticket dispenser" to the definition of items excluded from the definition of slot machines under Ohio law.
Legislative Description
To authorize a charitable organization to purchase, lease, and use instant bingo ticket dispensers, to specify that these dispensers are not slot machines, to modify the definitions of veteran's and fraternal organizations, to increase the number of times in a preceding year a veteran's or fraternal organization may lease premises to charitable organizations for festivals at which games of chance are conducted, and to allow a charitable organization to spend a reasonable amount of its gross profit to pay property taxes and assessments on the premises where the organization conducts bingo.
Bingo-instant ticket dispensers/license fees/use gross profit to pay taxes
Last Action
Passed 3rd Consideration House
2/17/2010