1993-05-08                     House Journal                      Page 1750
HB 168                                                                       
payment of any portion of the net proceeds of a bingo or pull-tab             
game to a registered lobbyist; providing a penalty for false                   
statements in gaming license applications; providing communities               
with the authority by local option election to prohibit charitable             
gaming within the community; and providing for an effective                    
date."                                                                         
                                                                               
                                                                               
Amendment No. 13 was offered  by Representative Therriault:                     
                                                                               
Page 3, line 18, following "registration;":                                  
	Insert "prohibiting the direct or indirect contribution of any               
portion of a charitable gaming activity to a candidate for public              
office, to that candidate's campaign organization, to a political              
party, or to an organization or club organized under or formally               
affiliated with a political party; providing that a political                  
organization is not a charitable organization for purposes of                  
participation in charitable gaming"                                           
                                                                               
Page 9, line 24, through page 10, line 10:                                     
	Delete all material and insert:                                               
   "* Sec. 15.  AS 05.15.150(a) is repealed and reenacted to read:           
	(a)  The authority to conduct the activity authorized by this                
chapter is contingent upon the dedication of the net proceeds of               
the charitable gaming activity to the awarding of prizes to                    
contestants or participants and to educational, civic, public,                 
charitable, patriotic or religious uses in the state. "Educational,            
civic, public, charitable, patriotic, or religious uses" means uses            
benefiting persons either by bringing them under the influence of              
education or religion or relieving them from disease, suffering, or            
constraint, or by assisting them in establishing themselves in life,           
or by providing for the promotion of the welfare and well-being                
of the membership of the organization within their own                         
community, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or                   
works, or lessening the burden on government, but does not                     
include                                                                        
		(1)  the direct or indirect contribution of any portion of                  
the proceeds of a charitable gaming activity to a candidate for a              
public office of the state or a political subdivision of the state, to         
that candidate's campaign organization, to a political party as