SLS 22RS-359 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 344
BY SENATOR HENSGENS
GAMING. Provides relative to the regulation of sports wagering. (8/1/22)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 27:601(B), relative to sports wagering; to provide regarding
3 definitions, enforcement, licenses and permits, and wagering; to provide regarding
4 requirements and regulations; to provide regarding revenue allocation; and to provide
5 for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 27:601(B) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง601. Title and citation; privilege
9 * * *
10 B. Any license, permit, approval, or thing obtained or issued or renewed
11 pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter is expressly declared by the legislature to
12 be a pure and absolute revocable privilege and not a right, property or otherwise,
13 under the constitution of the United States or of the state of Louisiana. Further, the
14 legislature declares that no holder of any license or permit acquires any vested
15 interest or right therein or thereunder.
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SLS 22RS-359 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Dawn Romero Watson.
DIGEST
SB 344 Original 2022 Regular Session Hensgens
Present law provides that any license, permit, approval, or thing obtained or issued pursuant
to the provisions of present law is expressly declared by the legislature to be a pure and
absolute revocable privilege and not a right, property or otherwise, under the U.S. or state
constitution. Further provides that the legislature declares that no holder of any license or
permit acquires any vested interest or right therein or thereunder.
Proposed law also adds the renewal of any license, permit, approval, or thing obtained or
issued pursuant to present law to the declaration by the legislature that such items are a pure
and absolute revocable privilege and not a right under law.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 27:601(B))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.