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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 1221
BY REPRESENTATIVE BARROW
GAMBLING/RIVERBOAT: Provides with respect to the payment of certain employees in
certain riverboat gaming facilities
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 27:114, relative to the Louisiana Riverboat Economic Development and2
Gaming Control Act; to provide with respect to the wages of certain employees of3
riverboat gaming facilities; to provide for penalties; to provide for enforcement; and4
to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 27:114 is hereby enacted to read as follows:7
ยง114. Payment of employees; penalties; enforcement8
A. Any employee hired pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Riverboat9
Economic Development and Gaming Control Act, Chapter 4 of Title 27 of the10
Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and who is not a key or non-key gaming11
employee or any other employee who is not required to undergo a suitability12
determination as a condition of his employment shall be paid at least the highest13
federal minimum wage.14
B. Any employer who fails or refuses to pay an employee as required by the15
provisions of Subsection A of this Section shall be liable to the employee for ninety16
days wages at the appropriate hourly rate plus the difference between the rate the17
employee was actually paid and the rate to which he was entitled pursuant to18
Subsection A of this Section, as well as for reasonable attorney fees and court costs.19 HLS 14RS-2509 ORIGINAL
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C. The Riverboat Gaming Enforcement Division shall enforce the provisions1
of this Section.2
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Barrow HB No. 1221
Abstract: Requires riverboat gaming facilities to pay certain employees the highest federal
minimum wage.
Present law creates the Louisiana Riverboat Economic Development and Gaming Control
Act (Act). Present law provides for gaming activities upon designated rivers or waterways.
Present law provides definitions, provides for inspections, and licensing.
Present law creates the riverboat gaming commission, which is a board created for licensing,
insurance, design and appearance of the facilities, and transactions conducted within the
facilities as well as with third parties.
Present law creates the Riverboat Gaming Enforcement Division (division) within the
gaming section of the office of state police in the Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections and
provides that the division has the powers, duties, and functions to inspect facilities and
equipment, initiate actions for violations of the Act, inspect, examine, photocopy, and audit
all papers, books, and records of licenses, deny, limit, restrict, suspend, or revoke a license
or permit, issue written interrogatories, emergency orders, and conduct investigations.
Proposed law requires that any employee who is not a key or non-key employee or who is
not required to undergo a suitability determination as a condition of his employment who
was hired pursuant to provisions of the Act shall be paid at least the highest federal
minimum wage.
Proposed law provides that if an employer fails to pay an employee the highest federal
minimum wage, the employer is liable to the employee for 90 days wages at the appropriate
amount, plus the difference between what the employee was actually paid and what he is
owed. The employer is also liable for reasonable attorney fees and court costs.
Proposed law requires the division to enforce the provisions of proposed law.
(Adds R.S. 27:114)