Bill Text: WV HB2911 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increasing the number of video lottery terminals authorized for retailers and fraternal societies or veteran's organizations
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-10 - To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development [HB2911 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2017-HB2911-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2911
By Delegates Barrett, Storch, Walters, Bates, Westfall, Ambler and Householder
[Introduced March 10, 2017;
Referred
to the Committee on Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
then then the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-22B-1101 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing the number of video lottery terminals authorized for retailers and fraternal societies or veteran's organizations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §29-22B-1101 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 22B. LIMITED VIDEO LOTTERY.
PART 11. ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION
OF VIDEO LOTTERY TERMINALS.
§29-22B-1101. Limitation on number and location of video lottery terminals.
(a) The Lottery Commission may not authorize the placement of more than nine thousand video lottery terminals in restricted access adult-only facilities in this state.
(b) No person may directly or indirectly operate more than seven and one-half percent of the number of video lottery terminals authorized in this section, which shall be located only in restricted access adult-only facilities.
(c) No licensed limited
video lottery retailer may be authorized to have on the premises for which the
license was issued more than five video lottery terminals ten video
lottery terminals except that a fraternal society or veteran's organization
that is: (A) A fraternal beneficiary society that is exempt from federal income
tax under section 501(c)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
(B) a domestic fraternal society that is exempt from federal income tax under
section 501(c)(10); or (C) a veterans' organization that is exempt from federal
income tax under section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code may be
authorized to have on the premises for which the license was issued not more
than ten video lottery terminals twelve video lottery terminals.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of video lottery terminals authorized for retailers and fraternal societies or veteran's organizations.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
