CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1402



62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 28, 2011
  Yeas 94   Nays 1


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 6, 2011
  Yeas 46   Nays 2



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President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1402 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.



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Chief Clerk
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1402
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Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By House State Government & Tribal Affairs (originally sponsored by Representatives Upthegrove and Orwall)

READ FIRST TIME 02/17/11.   



     AN ACT Relating to social card games in an area annexed by a city or town that allowed a house-banked social card game business to continue operating under RCW 9.46.295; and amending RCW 9.46.295.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 9.46.295 and 2009 c 550 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Any license to engage in any of the gambling activities authorized by this chapter as now exists or as hereafter amended, and issued under the authority thereof shall be legal authority to engage in the gambling activities for which issued throughout the incorporated and unincorporated area of any county, except that a city located therein with respect to that city, or a county with respect to all areas within that county except for such cities, may absolutely prohibit, but may not change the scope of license, any or all of the gambling activities for which the license was issued.
     (2)(a) A city or town with a prohibition on house-banked social card game licenses that annexes an area that is within a city, town, or county that permits house-banked social card games may allow a house-banked social card game business that was licensed by the commission as of July 26, 2009, to continue operating if the city or town is authorized to impose a tax under RCW 82.14.415 and can demonstrate that the continuation of the house-banked social card game business will reduce the credit against the state sales and use tax as provided in RCW 82.14.415(7).
     (b) A city or town that allowed a house-banked social card game business in an annexed area to continue operating under (a) of this subsection before July 15, 2010, shall allow all social card game businesses in the annexed area that were operating and licensed by the commission as of January 1, 2011, to continue operating.
     (c) A city or town that allows a ((house-banked)) social card game business in an annexed area to continue operating is not required to allow additional ((house-banked)) social card game businesses.

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