09 LC 35
1377S
The
House Committee on Public Safety & Homeland Security offers the following
substitute to HB 166:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to bingo, so as to define certain terms relating to
bingo; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal
conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
2 of Article 2 of Chapter 12 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to bingo, is amended by revising paragraph (1) of Code
Section 16-12-51, relating to definitions pertaining to bingo, as
follows:
"(1)
'Bingo game' or 'nonprofit bingo game' means a game of chance played on cards
with numbered squares in which counters or indicators are placed on numbers
chosen by lot and won by covering a previously specified number or order of
numbered squares
and a game of
chance played on cards with numbered sections listing winning combinations of
letters and number symbols and containing hidden letter and number symbols where
each participant receives one or more cards which afford a participant an
opportunity to win something of value by opening, detaching, or otherwise
removing one or more covers from the card to reveal a set of number and letter
symbols. A bingo game may be played
manually or with an electronic or computer device that stores the numbers from a
player's card or cards, tracks the numbers chosen by lot when such numbers are
entered by the player, and notifies the player of a winning combination. Such
words, terms, or phrases, as used in this paragraph, shall be strictly construed
to include only the series of acts generally defined as bingo and shall exclude
all other activity."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.