Skill based amusement games-authorized locations.

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate statement about marking age-restricted areas was removed as it was not supported in the official source material.

Skill-Based Amusement Games Location Rules

This law sets rules for where skill-based amusement games can be placed and allows some existing games to keep running if they were there before September 14, 2022.

What This Bill Does

• Defines 'truck stop' as a business premises equipped with diesel fueling islands for commercial vehicles that sells at least 125,000 gallons of diesel or biodiesel monthly and includes parking spaces dedicated to commercial vehicle use on land of at least two acres.
• Defines 'smoke shop' as a retailer getting more than half its yearly money from selling nicotine products like e-cigarettes or tobacco.
• Limits skill-based amusement games to truck stops, smoke shops, and businesses licensed to sell alcohol.
• Allows existing games in places not meeting the new rules to keep running if they were there before September 14, 2022.

Who It Names or Affects

• Businesses that want to place skill-based amusement games
• Operators of existing skill-based amusement games

Terms To Know

Truck stop

A business premises equipped with diesel fueling islands for commercial vehicles, selling at least 125,000 gallons of diesel or biodiesel monthly and including parking spaces dedicated to commercial vehicle use on land of at least two acres.

Smoke shop

A retailer getting more than half its yearly money from selling nicotine products like e-cigarettes or tobacco.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law does not specify what happens to games that do not meet the new rules after September 14, 2022.
• It is unclear how strictly these definitions will be enforced by local authorities.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 23LSO-0064
Bill No.:

SF0041

Effective:

4/1/2023

LSO No.:

23LSO-0064

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0025

Chapter No.:

43

Prime Sponsor:

Joint Revenue Interim Committee

Catch Title:

Skill based amusement games-authorized locations.

Subject:

Authorized locations for skill-based amusement games.

Summary/Major Elements:

This act specifies that skill-based amusement games may only be located in an authorized location which is limited to truck stops, smoke shops or businesses that are licensed to sell alcoholic liquor or malt beverages. The act provides definitions of "truck stop" and "smoke shop".

The act authorizes an establishment that is not an authorized location under the act, but that was operating skill-based amusement games before September 14, 2022, to continue operating skill based amusement games.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

23LSO-0064

ORIGINAL Senate

ENGROSSED
File No
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SF0041

ENROLLED ACT NO. 25,

SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2023 General Session

AN ACT relating to gaming; limiting where skill based amusement games can be located; allowing previously authorized skill based amusement games to continue operating as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 11
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102(a)(xvi) and by creating a new paragraph (xxi) and 11
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303(d) and by creating a new subsection (e) are amended to read:

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102.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(xvi)

"Establishment" means a single physical place of business
that operates as a truck stop, smoke shop or that is licensed or permitted to sell alcoholic liquor or malt beverages under W.S. 12
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203(g), 12
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201, 12
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301, 12
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401, 12
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407, 12
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413, 12
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414 or 12
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415
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(xxi)

"Truck stop" means a business premises that is:

(A)

Equipped with diesel islands used for fueling commercial motor vehicles and that sells on average one hundred twenty
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five thousand (125,000) gallons of diesel or biodiesel fuel each month based on the previous twelve (12) months of sales; and

(B)

Located on a parcel of land of not less than two (2) acres that is either owned or leased by the business and which includes a convenience store with parking spaces dedicated to commercial motor vehicle use.

(xxii)

"Smoke shop" means a retailer as defined in W.S. 14
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301(a)(iii) that derives fifty percent (50%) or more of its gross annual revenue from nicotine products as defined by W.S. 14
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301(a)(vi).

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303.

Restrictions on operation of skill based amusement games.

(d)

Skill based amusement games shall only be located for play at an establishment, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section.
An operator shall not locate a skill based amusement game in an area of the establishment into which a person under the age of twenty
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one (21) years may enter. An operator shall conspicuously mark each area of the establishment containing a skill based amusement game as an age restricted area. The operator shall not allow a person under the age of twenty
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one (21) years to play a skill based amusement game.

(e)

Any operator who, before September 14, 2022 had a skill based amusement game located at a place of business that does not meet the definition of "establishment" in W.S. 11
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102(a)(xvi) on April 1, 2023 shall be authorized to continue operating skill based amusement games if the operator otherwise meets the requirements to operate a skill based amusement game.

Section 2.

This act is effective April 1, 2023.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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