This Amendment requires the following: (1) The Superior Court to provide notice of an individual's conviction of the crime of student athlete harassment to the Director of the State Lottery Office ("Director").

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate explanation included claims that were not supported by the official source material, such as allowing bans for reported incidents without conviction.

Notice and Exclusion for Student Athlete Harassment Convictions

This amendment requires the Superior Court to notify the State Lottery Office about convictions related to student athlete harassment, and it allows the Lottery Director to exclude individuals from certain lottery games if they are convicted or reported for this crime.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Superior Court to tell the State Lottery Office when someone is found guilty of harassing a student athlete.
• Allows the State Lottery Office director to exclude people from playing table games, sports lotteries, video lottery games, and internet lotteries if they are convicted or reported for student athlete harassment.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who are found guilty of harassing a student athlete will be notified to the State Lottery Office.
• The State Lottery Office director can exclude individuals from playing specific types of lottery games if they have been convicted or reported for student athlete harassment.

Terms To Know

Student Athlete Harassment

Behavior that is harmful, threatening, or offensive towards a person who participates in sports at school.

Director of the State Lottery Office

The person in charge of managing and overseeing lottery operations within the state.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is unclear how this amendment will be enforced or what consequences there are for not following it.
• This bill has passed both chambers but does not have an effective date yet, so it's uncertain when these rules will start being used.

Official Summary Text

This Amendment requires the following:
(1) The Superior Court to provide notice of an individual's conviction of the crime of student athlete harassment to the Director of the State Lottery Office ("Director").
(2) The Director to exclude a person from participating in the play of any table game, sports lottery game, video lottery game, or Internet lottery game in Delaware if the Director receives information that the person is convicted of student athlete harassment or is the subject of a report of student athlete harassment.

Current Bill Text

Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Yearick

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

HOUSE BILL NO. 314

AMEND House Bill No. 314 by inserting the following after line 47 and before line 48:

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(4) The Superior Court shall provide notice of an individual’s conviction under this section to the Director of the State Lottery Office.

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FURTHER AMEND House Bill No. 314 by deleting lines on lines 101 to 103 in their entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

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(j) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Director shall place a person on the list established under subsection (a) and (b) of this section if any of the following apply:

(1) The Director receives information that the person has been convicted of a violation of § 908 of Title 28, or a similar statute of any state or jurisdiction.

(2) The Director receives information from the Director of the Division of Gaming Enforcement that a report concerning the person has been received under subsection (k) of this section.

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SYNOPSIS

This Amendment requires the following:

(1) The Superior Court to provide notice of an individual's conviction of the crime of student athlete harassment to the Director of the State Lottery Office ("Director").

(2) The Director to exclude a person from participating in the play of any table game, sports lottery game, video lottery game, or Internet lottery game in Delaware if the Director receives information that the person is convicted of student athlete harassment or is the subject of a report of student athlete harassment.