| Passed by the House February 28, 2011 Yeas 94 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 2011 Yeas 46 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | 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. BARBARA BAKER ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved April 20, 2011, 2:08 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 20, 2011 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2011 Regular Session |
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.