Bill Text: NH SB597 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to lucky 7 ticket dispenser devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-25 - Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/23/2024 (Vote 18-1; Consent Calendar) [SB597 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB597-Introduced.html

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SB 597  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-3154

02/08

 

SENATE BILL 597

 

AN ACT relative to lucky 7 ticket dispenser devices.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12

 

COMMITTEE: Ways and Means

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill removes the requirement that lucky 7 ticket dispenser devices include the capability of printing a paper ticket.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3154

02/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to lucky 7 ticket dispenser devices.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Sale of Lucky 7 Tickets.  Amend RSA 287-E:21, III-a to read as follows:

III-a. Lucky 7 tickets may be sold by dispenser devices approved by the commission and located at the regular meeting place of, or at a facility owned, leased, or utilized by, the licensee for its activities, including facilities licensed under RSA 287-D, provided that [such device dispenses a paper or cardboard ticket and] specifications for such dispenser device are contained in the rules of the commission. Any permitted lucky 7 device shall not be in the nature of a slot machine and the outcome of any wager involving a permitted lucky 7 device shall be determined by [the cardboard or paper ticket, or] the video monitor [when so equipped]. [Devices capable of displaying the outcome on a video monitor shall provide the player with the option of printing a paper ticket.] No charitable organization shall be licensed to sell lucky 7 tickets for more than 16 days per month when selling tickets at a facility licensed under RSA 287-D. Lucky 7 tickets sold at said facilities may be sold during all hours for which the facility is licensed to operate.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.