Bill Text: HI HB343 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Gambling Machines and Devices; Gambling Activities Offered Incident to Purchase of Goods or Services

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-03 - The committee on JDL deferred the measure. [HB343 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB343-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  762

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 343

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 343, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GAMBLING OFFENSES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the law to address the latest generation of gambling devices in Hawaii.  Specifically, this measure amends the gambling law to provide that gambling activities offered incident to the purchase of goods or services, or any entries, credits, or play points that extend or permit the privilege of playing a game of chance without charge, constitute gambling.

 

     The Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, Hawaii Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, Hawaii Family Forum, Hawaii Catholic Conference, and a concerned individual supported this measure.  PJY Enterprises, LLC, and numerous concerned individuals opposed this bill.  A concerned individual submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to promote further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 343, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 343, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair