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SB 76                                                                        
The Finance Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 76 "An Act                    
preventing persons with felony convictions from being involved in              
charitable gaming activities as a permittee, licensee, or employee in          
a managerial or supervisory capacity; and relating to `political uses'         
and `political organizations' as those terms are used in the charitable        
gaming statutes" and recommended it be replaced with                           
                                                                               
CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 76(FIN), entitled:                                      
"An Act requiring regulations relating to pull-tabs to be consistent           
with North American Gaming Regulators Association standards on                 
pull-tabs to the extent permitted by charitable gaming laws; allowing          
permittees to contract with vendors to sell pull-tabs on behalf of the         
permittee at an establishment holding a package store license and              
certain establishments holding a beverage dispensary license;                  
allowing municipalities to prohibit vendors from conducting gaming             
activities within the municipality; restricting the purchase of pull-tabs      
by permittees, licensees, and vendors and their owners, managers,              
and employees; requiring receipts before prizes of $50 or more may             
be awarded in pull-tab games; prohibiting distributors from supplying          
pull-tabs to vendors; requiring the registration of vendors and                
regulating activities involving them; requiring the licensing of out-of-       
state pull-tab manufacturers; requiring the department regulating              
charitable gaming to approve contracts between permittees and                  
operators before gaming may occur; preventing persons with felony              
convictions or convictions for crimes involving theft or dishonesty            
or a violation of gambling laws from being involved in charitable              
gaming activities as a permittee, licensee, vendor, person responsible         
for the operation of an activity, fund raiser or consultant of a               
licensee or vendor, or employee in a managerial or supervisory                 
capacity, and providing exceptions for certain persons whose                   
convictions are at least 10 years old and are not for violation of an          
unclassified felony described in AS11, a classA felony, or                     
extortion; relating to multiple-beneficiary charitable gaming permits          
and door prizes for charitable gaming; requiring operators to pay              
permittees each quarter at least 30 percent of the adjusted gross              
income from a pull-tab activity and limiting operators to expenses of          
not more than 70 percent of the adjusted gross income from that                
activity; requiring operators to pay permittees each quarter at least          
10 percent of the adjusted gross income from a charitable gaming               
activity other than pull-tabs and limiting operators to expenses of not        
more than 90 percent of the adjusted gross income from that activity;          

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SB 76                                                                        
requiring a permittee who uses a pull-tab vendor to enter into a               
contract with that vendor; requiring a vendor contracting with a               
permittee to pay the permittee at least 50 percent of the ideal net for        
each pull-tab series delivered to the vendor by the permittee;                 
requiring that operators report an adjusted gross income of at least           
15 percent of gross income each quarter; allowing the commissioner             
regulating charitable gaming to issue orders prohibiting violations of         
state gaming laws; relating to the authority of the commissioner               
regulating charitable gaming to suspend or revoke a permit, license,           
or registration; prohibiting the direct contribution of proceeds of a          
bingo or pull-tab game to a candidate for a public office of the state         
or a political subdivision of the state or to that candidate's campaign        
organization; prohibiting the payment of any portion of the net                
proceeds of a charitable gaming activity to a registered lobbyist;             
relating to `political uses' and `political organizations' as those terms      
are used in the charitable gaming statutes; and providing for an               
effective date."                                                               
                                                                               
Signing do pass:  Senators Pearce, Frank, Cochairs, Senators Kelly,            
Rieger, Jacko, Sharp.  Signing amend to delete all pull-tab gambling:          
Senator Kerttula.                                                              
                                                                               
Fiscal note for the committee substitute published today from                  
Department of Commerce and Economic Development.  Previous                     
zero fiscal note applies to the committee substitute.                          
                                                                               
SENATE BILL NO. 76 was referred to the Rules Committee.