Missouri HB 119: Establishes provisions relating to sports wagering.

Bill Text

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 119
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
0592H.04C DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 313.800, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof fifteen new sections relating to
sports wagering, with a penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 313.800, RSMo, is repealed and fifteen new sections enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as sections 313.800, 313.1000, 313.1002, 313.1004, 313.1006, 313.1008,
3 313.1010, 313.1012, 313.1014, 313.1016, 313.1017, 313.1018, 313.1019, 313.1020, and
4 313.1022, to read as follows:
313.800. 1. As used in sections 313.800 to 313.850, unless the context clearly requires
2 otherwise, the following terms mean:
3 (1) "Adjusted gross receipts", the gross receipts from licensed gambling games and
4 devices less winnings paid to wagerers. "Adjusted gross receipts" shall not include adjusted
5 gross receipts from sports wagering as defined in section 313.1000;
6 (2) "Applicant", any person applying for a license authorized under the provisions of
7 sections 313.800 to 313.850;
8 (3) "Bank", the elevations of ground which confine the waters of the Mississippi or
9 Missouri Rivers at the ordinary high water mark as defined by common law;
10 (4) "Capital, cultural, and special law enforcement purpose expenditures" shall include
11 any disbursement, including disbursements for principal, interest, and costs of issuance and
12 trustee administration related to any indebtedness, for the acquisition of land, land
13 improvements, buildings and building improvements, vehicles, machinery, equipment, works
14 of art, intersections, signing, signalization, parking lot, bus stop, station, garage, terminal, hanger,
15 shelter, dock, wharf, rest area, river port, airport, light rail, railroad, other mass transit, pedestrian
16 shopping malls and plazas, parks, lawns, trees, and other landscape, convention center, roads,
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended
to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

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17 traffic control devices, sidewalks, alleys, ramps, tunnels, overpasses and underpasses, utilities,
18 streetscape, lighting, trash receptacles, marquees, paintings, murals, fountains, sculptures, water
19 and sewer systems, dams, drainage systems, creek bank restoration, any asset with a useful life
20 greater than one year, cultural events, and any expenditure related to a law enforcement officer
21 deployed as horse-mounted patrol, school resource or drug awareness resistance education
22 (D.A.R.E) officer;
23 (5) "Cheat", to alter the selection of criteria which determine the result of a gambling
24 game or the amount or frequency of payment in a gambling game;
25 (6) "Commission", the Missouri gaming commission;
26 (7) "Credit instrument", a written check, negotiable instrument, automatic bank draft or
27 other authorization from a qualified person to an excursion gambling boat licensee or any of its
28 affiliated companies licensed by the commission authorizing the licensee to withdraw the amount
29 of credit extended by the licensee to such person from the qualified person's banking account in
30 an amount determined under section 313.817 on or after a date certain of not more than thirty
31 days from the date the credit was extended, and includes any such writing taken in consolidation,
32 redemption or payment of a previous credit instrument, but does not include any interest-bearing
33 installment loan or other extension of credit secured by collateral;
34 (8) "Dock", the location in a city or county authorized under subsection 10 of section
35 313.812 which contains any natural or artificial space, inlet, hollow, or basin, in or adjacent to
36 a bank of the Mississippi or Missouri Rivers, next to a wharf or landing devoted to the
37 embarking of passengers on and disembarking of passengers from a gambling excursion but shall
38 not include any artificial space created after May 20, 1994, and is located more than one
39 thousand feet from the closest edge of the main channel of the river as established by the United
40 States Army Corps of Engineers;
41 (9) "Excursion gambling boat", a boat, ferry or other floating facility licensed by the
42 commission on which gambling games are allowed;
43 (10) "Fiscal year" shall for the purposes of subsections 3 and 4 of section 313.820 mean
44 the fiscal year of a home dock city or county;
45 (11) "Floating facility", any facility built or originally built as a boat, ferry or barge
46 licensed by the commission on which gambling games are allowed;
47 (12) "Gambling excursion", the time during which gambling games may be operated on
48 an excursion gambling boat whether docked or during a cruise;
49 (13) "Gambling game" includes, but is not limited to, games of skill or games of chanc