Indiana Senate Bill 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 10 2021 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-03-18 - Representative Morrison added as cosponsor
Pending: House Public Policy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Private card games. Defines "private low stakes card game" and provides a defense to certain gambling crimes if the gambling was a private low stakes card game. Defines "cheating" and makes cheating at gambling a Class A misdemeanor, and increases the penalty for the offense based on the gain obtained by cheating. Provides that the definition of "electronic gaming device" does not include an amusement device that rewards a player with a ticket or coupon redeemable for noncash merchandise that has a wholesale value of not more than the greater of 10 times the amount charged to play the amusement device one time or $250. Makes conforming amendments.

Private card games.

Sen. Michael Young [R]	Sen. Jon Ford [R]	Sen. Philip Boots [R]	Sen. David Niezgodski [D]
Rep. Robert Morris [R]	Rep. Alan Morrison [R]

2021-02-09 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 34 N: 13 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2021-02-03 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-18	House	Representative Morrison added as cosponsor
2021-03-18	House	Representative Morris added as sponsor
2021-03-18	House	Representative Morrison removed as sponsor
2021-02-23	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
2021-02-10	Senate	Referred to the House
2021-02-09	Senate	Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
2021-02-09	Senate	Senator Boots added as third author
2021-02-09	Senate	Senator Ford Jon added as second author
2021-02-09	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Morrison
2021-02-09	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 79: yeas 34, nays 13
2021-02-08	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2021-02-04	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2021-01-04	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
2021-01-04	Senate	Authored by Senator Young M

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/39/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/5/f/7/75f7c090/SB0039.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/0/6/0/7060b1a8/SB0039.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/c/a/5/0ca57eb6/SB0039.02.COMS.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/9/c/0/09c09461/SB0039.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/b/9/f/2b9f0093/SB0039.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/8/a/0/18a0ae55/SB0039.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/f/3/9/bf39de57/SB0039.02.COMS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/9/b/b/b9bb378f/SB0039.02.COMS.FN003.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/a/3/3/ca33a729/SB0039.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/d/4/b/5d4b8385/SB0039.79_S.pdf