RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 387 (HB 620) 2022 Regular Session Stefanski
Existing law provides that the office of charitable gaming may license charitable
organizations to hold and operate certain games of chance.
New law adds private nonprofit elementary or secondary schools and public elementary or
secondary schools to the list of organizations authorized to hold and operate certain games
of chance.
Existing law allows the office to license certain organizations to hold and operate certain
games of chance without the organization having to qualify with the IRS for a federal income
tax exemption.
New law adds private nonprofit elementary or secondary schools and public elementary or
secondary schools to existing law.
Existing law provides for definitions for the following terms: booster club, civic or service
association, Mardi Gras carnival organization, parent-teacher association, public institution
of higher education, and volunteer fire company.
New law provides for a definition for "private nonprofit elementary or secondary school" and
"public elementary or secondary school".
Existing law provides that any club, organization, group, or association which has a
membership comprised exclusively of children enrolled in a public or private nonprofit
elementary or secondary school and which is approved to conduct activities in such school
by the principal of the school in accordance with school board policy shall be exempt from
the existing law licensing and reporting procedures in a municipality or parish whose
governing authority has decided to permit raffles, bingo, and keno within is limits. Further
provides that such club, organization, group, or association shall be exempt from licensing
and reporting procedures for the purpose of conducting raffles as a means of fund-raising.
New law retains existing law and provides that a private nonprofit elementary or secondary
school and public elementary or secondary school in this state shall be exempt from licensing
and reporting procedures in any municipality or parish whose governing authority has
decided to permit raffles, bingo, and keno within its limits as provided in existing law. Such
private nonprofit school or public school shall be exempted from licensing or reporting
procedures only for the conducting of raffles as a means of fund-raising.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 4:707(D), (E), and (F)(2))