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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 101
BY SENATOR GUILLORY
CHARITABLE GAMING. Increases the number of days that games of chance may be
conducted. (8/1/12)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 4:714(A), relative to charitable gaming; to increase the number2
of days a licensee may hold, operate, or conduct any game of chance within a3
calendar month; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 4:714(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 6
ยง714. Restrictions; requirements; transfers; prohibitions7
A. No licensee shall hold, operate, or conduct any game of chance under this8
Chapter more often than on fifteen twenty days in any one calendar month.9
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Section 2. Nothing in this Act shall permit the expansion of video bingo in any11
parish in the state of Louisiana.12 SB NO. 101
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The original instrument was prepared by Michelle Ducharme. The following
digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was
prepared by Thomas L. Tyler.
DIGEST
Guillory (SB 101)
Present law limits to 15 days within a calendar month that a licensee may hold, operate, or
conduct any game of chance.
Proposed law increases the number of days within a calendar month from 15 to 20 that a
licensee may hold, operate, or conduct any game of chance.
Specifically state that nothing in proposed law shall permit expansion in video bingo in any
parish.
Effective August 1, 2012.
(Amends R.S. 4:714(A))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill.
1. Specifically states that nothing be construed to authorize expression of video
bingo.