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2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 309
BY REPRESENTATIVE COX
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 4:715(A)(2)(b), relative to charitable gaming; to provide for an
3 increase in compensation for charitable gaming workers; and to provide for related
4 matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 4:715(A)(2)(b) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง715. Personnel to hold games; commissions or salaries; equipment and supplies;
8 expenses
9 A.
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11 (2)(a)
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13 (b) Any person, association, or corporation licensed to hold, operate, or
14 conduct any games of chance under any license issued pursuant to this Chapter may
15 compensate, for services rendered, any fifteen employees, including a bingo caller,
16 who assist in the holding, operating, or conducting of such games. The rate of
17 compensation shall be no more than fifteen twenty dollars per hour and in any event
18 shall not exceed ninety one hundred dollars per session for any employee. Each
19 employee or volunteer worker may also be provided meals and beverages to be eaten
20 on the premises not to exceed a total value of fifteen dollars per person.
21 Expenditures made under the provisions of this Subsection shall be subject to the
22 reporting provisions of R.S. 4:716. Compensation provided for in this Paragraph
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1 shall not constitute a violation of the prohibition against the payment or giving of a
2 commission, salary, compensation, reward, or recompense to any person holding,
3 operating, or conducting any such game.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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