Plain English Breakdown
The official status indicates the bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, but no specific effective date was provided in the source text.
Georgia Lottery Act Update for Billiards and Darts
This bill changes the Georgia Lottery law to allow specific tournaments for pool, billiards, and darts with prizes.
What This Bill Does
- Amends the Georgia Lottery for Education Act to authorize certain billiards and darts tournaments and their prizes.
- Provides definitions related to these new tournament types.
- Allows rules and regulations to be created regarding how these events must run.
- Requires that progressive discipline be used when sanctioning violations of the rules.
- Requires the Georgia Lottery Corporation to provide certain data.
- Sets up a process for appeals from hearing officer decisions to go to the Metro Atlanta Business Case Division of the Superior Court of Fulton County.
- Provides methods to resolve disputes between master licensees and location owners or operators.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Georgia Lottery Corporation
- Master licensees who hold lottery permits
- Location owners and operators of tournament venues
Terms To Know
- Progressive discipline
- A system required by the bill for punishing rule violations, though specific steps are not detailed in this summary.
- Master licensee
- The main business or person holding a permit to run lottery-related activities at specific locations.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill text provided does not list the exact dates when these new rules will start.
- Specific details about prize amounts, tournament sizes, and game definitions are not included in this summary; they must be created through future regulations.
- The specific data required from the Georgia Lottery Corporation is not listed here.