THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY LAWRENCE, BAKER, BOYD, CLYMER, DUNBAR, EVERETT, GEIST, GINGRICH, HARRIS, HICKERNELL, KAUFFMAN, MAHER, MILNE, PYLE, SAYLOR, SCHRODER, STERN, TALLMAN, TOEPEL, WATSON, SWANGER, GROVE, VULAKOVICH, RAPP AND ROCK, OCTOBER 4, 2011

AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OCTOBER 26, 2011   

AN ACT

Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in gaming, further providing for general and

specific powers of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, for

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regulatory authority of Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and

for table game taxes.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1202(b) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:

§ 1202.  General and specific powers.

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(b)  Specific powers.--The board shall have the specific

power and duty:

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(31.1)  To post on the board's Internet website a

description of all requests for access to records under the

act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-

to-Know Law, including the total number of record requests,

the number of requests approved, the number of requests

denied and the number and outcome of appeals from denials of

access to records.

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Section 2.  Sections 1207(18) and 13A62(c) of Title 4 are

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amended to read:

§ 1207.  Regulatory authority of board.

The board shall have the power and its duties shall be to:

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(18)  [(Reserved).] Require that each licensed gaming

entity that offers patrons total rewards cards that track the

amount of money and time spent gaming in order to determine

the value of provisions or complimentary services to their

patrons issue monthly statements that list patrons' gaming

winnings and losses.

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§ 13A62.  Table game taxes.

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(c)  Deposits for property tax relief.--[If, on the last day

of a fiscal year the balance of the Budget Stabilization Reserve

Fund established pursuant to section 1701-A of the act of April

9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, exceeds

$750,000,000, as certified by the Secretary of the Budget] Two

years following the first payment of tax imposed under

subsection (a) to the department in accordance with subsection

(b)(1), the deposits made into the General Fund pursuant to

subsection (b)(3) shall cease and thereafter be deposited into

the Property Tax Relief Fund established pursuant to section

1409 (relating to Property Tax Relief Fund).

Section 2 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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