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Became Law

Description

Charitable gaming; permit requirement; permissible locations; suspensions and revocations. Modifies the list of organizations that may conduct charitable gaming and requires such organizations, other than organizations conducting raffles that reasonably expect to realize gross receipts from such raffles of $40,000 or less in any 12-month period, to obtain a permit from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; however, the bill exempts certain organizations from the permit application and audit fees. The bill specifies the locations at which an organization may conduct bingo, network bingo, instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards. The bill prohibits the holding of a permit by a supplier or manufacturer that commits certain violations or offenses after July 1, 2021. The bill prohibits the Charitable Gaming Board from adjusting the percentage of gross receipts that an organization must use for religious, charitable, community, or educational purposes or for certain real property expenses until a study is completed by a joint subcommittee created in the bill. The bill provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of the bill, any organization that conducted bingo, network bingo, instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards at a location outside of the county, city, or town in which its principal office, as registered with the State Corporation Commission, is located or an adjoining county, city, or town on or before February 1, 2021, may continue to conduct bingo, network bingo, instant bingo, pull tabs, or seal cards at such locations until June 30, 2022. Read the Bill »

Speed Ball Pull Tab

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07/16/2021: Awaiting a Vote in the Finance and Appropriations Committee

Bingo Pull Tabs Boxes

History

DateAction
12/23/2020Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101186D
12/23/2020Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
01/18/2021Impact statement from DPB (SB1127)
01/27/2021Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
01/27/2021Committee substitute printed 21103702D-S1
01/27/2021Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/27/2021Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
02/03/2021Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/03/2021Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (8-Y 1-N 6-A) (see vote tally)
02/03/2021Committee substitute printed 21104331D-S2
02/03/2021Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/04/2021Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/04/2021Read second time
02/04/2021Reading of substitute waived
02/04/2021Committee substitute rejected 21103702D-S1
02/04/2021Committee substitute agreed to 21104331D-S2
02/04/2021Reading of amendments waived
02/04/2021Amendments by Senator Reeves agreed to
02/04/2021Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1127ES2
02/04/2021Printed as engrossed 21104331D-ES2
02/05/2021Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 7-N 3-A) (see vote tally)
02/07/2021Placed on Calendar
02/07/2021Read first time
02/07/2021Referred to Committee on General Laws
02/08/2021Continued to Special Session 1 in General Laws
02/09/2021Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming
02/15/2021Impact statement from DPB (SB1127ES2)
02/15/2021House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
02/16/2021Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 0-N)
02/16/2021Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
02/16/2021House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
02/16/2021Reported from General Laws with substitute (16-Y 5-N) (see vote tally)
02/16/2021Committee substitute printed 21200255D-H1
02/16/2021Referred to Committee on Appropriations
02/17/2021Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
02/17/2021Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
02/18/2021Read second time
02/19/2021Read third time
02/19/2021Committee substitute agreed to 21200255D-H1
02/19/2021Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1127H1
02/19/2021Passed House with substitute (78-Y 22-N)
02/19/2021VOTE: Passage (78-Y 22-N)
02/19/2021House substitute agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N 1-A)
02/19/2021Title replaced 21200255D-H1
02/23/2021Impact statement from DPB (SB1127H1)
02/24/2021Enrolled
02/24/2021Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1127ER)
02/24/2021Signed by President
02/25/2021Signed by Speaker
02/26/2021Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
02/26/2021G Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
03/03/2021Impact statement from DPB (SB1127ER)
03/31/2021Governor's recommendation received by Senate
04/07/2021Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (38-Y 0-N 2-A)
04/07/2021House concurred in Governor's recommendation (78-Y 21-N)
04/07/2021VOTE: Agree To (78-Y 21-N)
04/07/2021G Governor's recommendation adopted
04/07/2021Reenrolled
04/07/2021Reenrolled bill text (SB1127ER2)
04/07/2021Signed by President as reenrolled
04/07/2021Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
04/07/2021Enacted, Chapter 520 (effective 7/1/21)
04/07/2021G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0520)

Pull Tab Games (Breakopens, Instant Bingo, Pickles)

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Pull tab games can be casually described as a paper slot machine. It is a specially printed card about the size of a business card with slot type symbols printed on the inside (bars, bells, 7’s, cherries). It is similar to a lottery scratch off ticket. Pull tabs, or just “tabs or tickets,” are opened by pulling perforated tabs (hence the name) on the back of the card. The opening created by pulling the tab open is called the “window.” The pull tab may have one large tab (one window ticket) or as many as 6 individual tabs (6 window ticket).The front of each tab will show the price, the symbols required to match in order to win, and the quantity of winners for each prize. A winning pull tab, for example, may require three 7’s in a window to be a winning ticket. Nearly all manufacturers identify winners by putting a line through all the symbols and print the cash prize amount in the window.

The different names listed above are common and are actually descriptive. The term break open or rip-offs describes the act of literally breaking open the ticket or ripping the tabs. Instant bingo describes the act of winning instantly after opening the tabs. The term pickles originated from games that displayed pull tabs in large pickle jars.

Pull tab games are manufactured in a very specific quantity called a “deal” (4000 tickets for example). Each deal has a different serial number similar to, and for the same reasons mentioned earlier for bingo paper. A deal of 4000 tickets may contain 500 – 1000 winning tickets or more. There are several top and intermediate prize amounts and usually hundreds of small winners. Current manufacturing processes make it impossible to identify which tickets are winners or where they are located in each deal. Manufacturers also use varied techniques to randomize the winning tabs within each deal.

Pull tab games are sold at bingo games in a variety of ways. Some games may have a sales area or pull tab counter offering a wide variety of different tabs. This variety of tabs may include several different tabs for each common denomination or selling price of $.10, $.25, $.50 or $1.00. Other games use selling agents that push a custom designed cart throughout the playing area or simply carry them in trays or aprons. Posters, called flare cards, are usually on display in the playing area for each tab. These flare cards show the same information that is on the front of each ticket (price, prize amount, and total number of winners of each prize amount).

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Prizes for pull tab games increase as the price per ticket increases. A $.25 ticket may have a top prize of $135 but a $1.00 ticket can be as much as $500 or more.