CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6430
Chapter
314, Laws of 1996
54th
Legislature
1996
Regular Session
SOCIAL
CARD GAMES
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/6/96
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Passed by the Senate February 9, 1996
YEAS 30 NAYS 14
 JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
Passed by
the House March 7, 1996
YEAS 83 NAYS 15
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CERTIFICATE
I, Marty
Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify
that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6430 as passed by the
Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
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 MARTY
BROWN
Secretary
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Approved
March 30, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and
Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March
30, 1996 - 4:48 p.m.
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MIKE
LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6430
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Passed Legislature -
1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/02/96.
Changing social
card game provisions.
AN ACT Relating to
social card games; and amending RCW 9.46.0281.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 9.46.0281 and 1994 c
120 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
"Social card
game," as used in this chapter, means a card game, including but not
limited to the game commonly known as "Mah-Jongg," which constitutes
gambling and contains each of the following characteristics:
(1) There are two or
more participants and each of them are players. ((However, no business with
a public cardroom on its premises may have more than five separate tables at
which card games are played)) The number of card tables shall be set by
the commission but shall not exceed a total of fifteen separate tables per
establishment;
(2) Except as
provided in subsection (3) of this section, a player's success at winning
money or other thing of value by overcoming chance is in the long run largely
determined by the skill of the player;
(3) ((No organization,
corporation or person collects or obtains or charges any percentage of or
collects or obtains any portion of the money or thing of value wagered or won
by any of the players: PROVIDED, That this subsection shall not preclude a
player from collecting or obtaining his or her winnings)) A cardroom may
serve as the custodian of a player-supported progressive prize contest, in any
card game authorized by the commission;
(4) No organization or
corporation, or person other than one licensed by the commission to operate
a cardroom collects or obtains any money or thing of value from, or charges
or imposes any fee upon, any person which either enables him or her to play or
results in or from his or her playing ((in excess of three dollars per half
hour of playing time by that person collected in advance: PROVIDED, That a fee
may also be charged for entry into a tournament for prizes, which fee shall not
exceed fifty dollars, including all separate fees which might be paid by a
player for various phases or events of the tournament: PROVIDED FURTHER, That
this subsection shall not apply to the membership fee in any bona fide
charitable or nonprofit organization));
(5) The type of card
game is one specifically approved by the commission pursuant to RCW 9.46.070;
and
(6) The extent of
wagers, money or other thing of value which may be wagered or contributed by
any player does not exceed the amount or value specified by the commission
pursuant to RCW 9.46.070.
Passed
the Senate February 9, 1996.
Passed
the House March 7, 1996.
Approved by the Governor March 30, 1996.
Filed in
Office of Secretary of State March 30, 1996.