00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 61(L&C)                                                                     
01 "An Act relating to licensing for a Calcutta pool as a game of chance."                                                 
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 05.15.100(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
04            (a)  The department may issue a permit to a municipality or qualified                                        
05       organization. The permit gives the municipality or qualified organization the privilege                           
06       of conducting bingo, raffles and lotteries, pull-tab games, ice classics, race classics,                          
07       rain classics, goose classics, mercury classics, deep freeze classics, canned salmon                              
08       classics, salmon classics, king salmon classics, dog mushers' contests, snow machine                              
09       classics, fish derbies, animal classics, Calcutta pools, and contests of skill.                               
10    * Sec. 2.  AS 05.15.115(c) is amended to read:                                                                     
11            (c)  A permittee may not contract with more than one operator at a time to                                   
12       conduct the same type of activity. For the purposes of this subsection, bingo games,                              
13       raffles, lotteries, pull-tab games, ice classics, race classics, rain classics, goose                             
14       classics, mercury classics, deep freeze classics, canned salmon classics, salmon                                  
15       classics, king salmon classics, dog mushers' contests, snow machine classics, fish                                

01       derbies, animal classics, Calcutta pools, and contests of skill are each a different type                     
02       of activity.                                                                                                      
03    * Sec. 3.  AS 05.15.180(b) is amended to read:                                                                     
04            (b)  With the exception of raffles, lotteries, bingo games, pull-tab games, race                             
05       classics, rain classics, goose classics, mercury classics, deep freeze classics, dog                              
06       mushers' contests, snow machine classics, canned salmon classics, salmon classics,                                
07       animal classics, Calcutta pools, and king salmon classics, an activity may not be                             
08       licensed under this chapter unless it existed in the state in substantially the same form                         
09       and was conducted in substantially the same manner before January 1, 1959. A snow                                 
10       machine classic may not be licensed under this chapter unless it has been in existence                            
11       for at least five years before the licensing. An animal classic may not be licensed                               
12       under this chapter unless it was in existence before November 1, 2002.                                            
13    * Sec. 4.  AS 05.15.690 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                              
14                 (46)  "Calcutta pool" means a game of chance in which, according to                                     
15       the rules of the particular game, participants bid on competitors who will compete in                             
16       an event, with each successful bidder wagering the amount of the successful bid on the                            
17       competitor bid for and in which, according to the rules of the particular game, a                                 
18       portion of the pool of the amount wagered on all competitors is divided among the                                 
19       pool participants who have wagered on the competitors who are winners of the event.