Minnesota SF 4436: Permit lessor employees to participate in pull-tab games when off duty

Bill Text

1.1 A bill for an act​
1.2 relating to lawful gambling; permitting lessor employees to participate in pull-tab​
1.3 games when off duty; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 349.181,​
1.4 subdivision 3.​
1.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:​
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 349.181, subdivision 3, is amended to read:​
1.7 Subd. 3.Organization and lessor employees and volunteers.(a) For purposes of this​
1.8 section, "volunteer" means a person who is not compensated by an organization but who​
1.9 performs activities in the conduct of lawful gambling for that organization.​
1.10 (b) For purposes of this section, "conduct of pull-tabs, tipboards, and paddlewheels"​
1.11 includes selling tickets, redeeming tickets, auditing games, making deposits, spinning the​
1.12 paddlewheel, and conducting inventory.​
1.13 (c) For purposes of this section, "conduct of bingo" includes selling bingo hard cards,​
1.14 bingo paper sheets, or facsimiles of bingo paper sheets; completing bingo occasion records;​
1.15 selecting or announcing bingo numbers; making deposits; and conducting inventory.​
1.16 (d) A volunteer involved in the conduct of tipboards that have no more than 32 chances​
1.17 per game or paddlewheel games conducted without a paddlewheel table may not participate​
1.18 as a player in electronic linked bingo, pull-tab, tipboard, or paddlewheel games at the same​
1.19 premises on the same business day that the volunteer was involved in the conduct of the​
1.20 games.​
1​Section 1.​
26-07442 as introduced​02/24/26 REVISOR JSK/EI​
SENATE​
STATE OF MINNESOTA​
S.F. No. 4436​NINETY-FOURTH SESSION​
(SENATE AUTHORS: LANG)​
OFFICIAL STATUS​D-PG​DATE​
Introduction and first reading​6673​03/12/2026​
Referred to State and Local Government​

2.1 (e) An employee or a volunteer who is involved in the conduct of any lawful gambling​
2.2 during a bingo occasion may not participate directly or indirectly as a player in any lawful​
2.3 gambling during that bingo occasion.​
2.4 (f) An organization or a lessor employee or volunteer who is involved in the conduct of​
2.5 electronic linked bingo, pull-tab games, tipboard games with more than 32 chances per​
2.6 game, or paddlewheel games conducted with a paddlewheel table at a permitted premises​
2.7 may not participate directly or indirectly as a player in electronic linked bingo, pull-tab,​
2.8 tipboard, or paddlewheel games at that premises. This restriction is in effect until two weeks​
2.9 after the employee or volunteer is no longer involved in the conduct of electronic linked​
2.10 bingo, pull-tab games, tipboard games with more than 32 chances per game, or paddlewheel​
2.11 games conducted with a paddlewheel table at that premises.​
2.12 (g) Notwithstanding paragraph (f), a lessor employee may participate as a player in​
2.13 pull-tab games at that premises provided the employee does not participate during working​
2.14 hours and the employee is off duty.​
2​Section 1.​
26-07442 as introduced​02/24/26 REVISOR JSK/EI​