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2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 516
BY SENATOR PRICE
GAMING. Provides with respect to the payment of certain employees in certain riverboat
gaming facilities. (8/1/18)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 27:114, relative to the Louisiana Riverboat Economic Development and
3 Gaming Control Act; to provide with respect to the wages of certain employees of
4 riverboat gaming facilities; to provide for penalties; to provide for enforcement; and
5 to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 27:114 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง114. Payment of employees; penalties; enforcement
9 A. Any employee hired pursuant to the Louisiana Riverboat Economic
10 Development and Gaming Control Act, and who is not a key or non-key gaming
11 employee or any other employee who is not required to undergo a suitability
12 determination as a condition of his employment shall be paid at least the highest
13 federal minimum wage.
14 B. Any employer who fails or refuses to pay an employee as required by
15 Subsection A of this Section shall be liable to the employee for ninety days
16 wages at the appropriate hourly rate plus the difference between the rate the
17 employee was actually paid and the rate to which he was entitled pursuant to
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1 Subsection A of this Section, as well as for reasonable attorney fees and court
2 costs.
3 C. The riverboat gaming enforcement division shall enforce the
4 provisions of this Section.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SB 516 Original 2018 Regular Session Price
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 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. Further, the employer is also liable for reasonable attorney fees and court costs.
Proposed law requires the division to enforce proposed law.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Adds R.S. 27:114)
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