1Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2Consolidated Statutes, further providing for pool selling and
3bookmaking.

4The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5hereby enacts as follows:

6Section 1. Section 5514 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

8§ 5514. Pool selling and bookmaking.

9[A] (a) Offense defined.--Except as provided in subsection 
10(b), a person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if
11he:

12(1) engages in pool selling or bookmaking;

13(2) occupies any place for the purpose of receiving,
14recording or registering bets or wagers, or of selling pools;

15(3) receives, records, registers, forwards, or purports
16or pretends to forward, to another, any bet or wager upon the
17result of any political nomination, appointment or election,

1or upon any contest of any nature;

2(4) becomes the custodian or depository, for gain or
3ward, of any property staked, wagered or pledged, or to be
4staked, wagered, or pledged upon any such result; or

5(5) being the owner, lessee, or occupant of any
6premises, knowingly permits or suffers the same, to be used
7or occupied for any of such purposes.

8(b) Authorized pools.--Any person who conducts or
9participates in a pool is not subject to prosecution under
10subsection (a) if all of the following apply:

11(1) Not more than 100 individuals participate in the
12pool.

13(2) The maximum amount wagered for each individual entry
14in the pool is $20.

15(3) Other than the wager no other money or thing of
16value is paid or given for participation in the pool.

17(4) All wagers collected for entry into the pool are
18paid as prizes to one or more participants in the pool or to
19a clearly identified nonprofit organization.

20(5) No wagers or portions thereof are retained by the
21person or entity operating the pool and collecting wagers for
22participation.

23(6) The transaction of entering the pool is incidental
24to a bona fide social relationship.

25Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.