AB 8 — Makes various changes relating to gaming. (BDR 41-278)
Last action — Approved by the Governor. Chapter 251.
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Assembly
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✓Passed Senate
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced November 18, 2020. Enacted.
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Bill Text
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(ReprintedAssembly withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on April 14, 2021) FIRST REPRINT A.B.
88–Committee Aon SSEMBLYJudiciary BCHAPTER.......... ILLN O.
8–COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (O NB EHALF OF THE NEVADA G AMING CONTROL BOARD ) PREFILED N OVEMBER 18, 2020 ____________ Referred to Committee on Judiciary SUMMARY—Makes various changes relating to gaming.
(BDR 41-278) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
No.
Effect on the State:
No.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
LegislativeLegiExisting Counsel’slaw Digest:defines the term “credit instrument” as a writing for certain purposes evidencing a gaming debt owed to a person who holds a nonrestricted license.
Existing law defines the term “credit instrument” as a writing for certain purposes evidencing a gaming debt owed to a person who holds a nonrestricted license.
Existing law requires gaming employees to register with the Nevada Gaming Control Board, including operators of certain call centers and information services.
(NRS 463.0157, 463.335) Section 2 of this bill expands the persons who are required to register with the Board to include:
- *AB8_R1* – 2 – Existing law requires a credit instrument to be signed by a patron before a licensee may accept the instrument.
Existing law defines the term “slot machine wagering voucher” to mean a printed wagering instrument and requires such a voucher to be redeemed by a patron before the expiration datedated printed thereon under certain circumstances.
(1) replaces the term “slot machine wagering voucher” with the term “wagering voucher”;
Section 8 of this bill makes a conforming change to reflect the replacedExisting term.law specifies that elected officers and certain employees in the unclassified and classified service in the Executive Department of the State Government must be paid on a salary basis, are not entitled to overtime compensation and are not subject to disciplinary suspension for less than 1 week.
Existing law specifies that elected officers and certain employees in the unclassified and classified service in the Executive Department of the State Government must be paid on a salary basis, are not entitled to overtime (NRS 284.148) Certain employees of the Board are subject to the same limitations.limitations under existing law.
(NRS 463.080) Section 4 of this bill eliminates the applicability employees subject solely to the requirements of the comprehensive plan that the - 81st Session (2021) – 2 – Board is required to establish under existing law.law governing employment, job classifications and performance standards and the retention and discharge of its employees.
(NRS 463.080) Section 4 of this bill eliminates the applicability of such limitations to those employees of the Board, thereby making those employees subject solely to the requirements of the comprehensive plan that the Board is required to establish under existing law governing employment, job classifications and performance standards and the retention and discharge of its employees.
and (2) removes compensation received for conducting contests and tournaments held in conjunction with interactive gaming from the definition of gross revenue.revenue;
Existingand law(3) requiresrevises eachprovisions licenseegoverning whocertain concludesdeductions afrom gaminggross operationrevenue. to pay a collectible credit instruments owed;
orExisting (2)law monthlyrequires basedeach onlicensee allwho compensationlueconcludes ofa receivedgaming inoperation paymentto ofpay anya creditfee: instrument.
(NRS(1) 463.3857)on Sectionthe 7final tax return of thisthe billlicensee, removesbased on the monthlyoutstanding paymentvalue option.of collectible credit instruments owed;
or (2) monthly based on all compensation removes the monthly payment option.nstrument.
(NRS 463.3857) Section 7 of this bill EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
“Gaming employee” means any person connected directly with an operator of a slot route, the operator of a - *AB8_R1* – 3 – pari-mutuel system, the operator of an inter-casino linked system or a manufacturer, distributor or disseminator, or with the operation of a gaming establishment licensed to conduct any game, 16 or more slot machines, a race book, sports pool or pari-mutuel wagering, including:
(g)- Employees81st ofSession a(2021) person– required3 by– NRS 464.010 to be licensed to operate an off-track pari-mutuel system;
to be (h) Employees of a person required by NRS 463.430 to be licensed to disseminate information concerning racing and employees of an affiliate of such a person involved in assisting the person in carrying out the duties of the person in this State;
[(k)] (l) Employees of operators of inter-casino linked systems or interactive gaming systems whose duties include the operational or supervisory control of the systems or the games that are part of the systems;
- *AB8_R1* – 4 – [(p)] (q) Keno runners;
[(q)] (r) Keno writers;
- 81st Session (2021) – 4 – [(z)] (aa) Employees of a licensee who have local access and provide management, support, security or disaster recovery services for any hardware or software that is regulated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto;the(aa)] (bb) Temporary or contract employees hired by a licensee to perform a function related to gaming [.] ;
[and (aa)] (bb) Temporary or contract employees hired by a licensee to perform a function related to gaming [.] ;
and (d) Compensation received for conducting any game [, or any contest or tournament in conjunction with interactive gaming,] in which the licensee is not party to a wager, less the total of all cash paid out as losses to patrons, all cash and the cost of any noncash prizes paid out to participants in contests orornd tournaments not to exceed the total [compensation] cash or cash equivalents received for the right to participate in the contests or tournaments, those amounts paid to fund periodic payments and any other items made deductible as losses by NRS 463.3715.
- *AB8_R1* – 5 – (a) Counterfeit facsimiles of money, chips, tokens, wagering instruments or wagering credits;
- 81st Session (2021) – 5 – (d) Cash taken in fraudulent acts perpetrated against a licensee for which the licensee is not reimbursed;
or (f) Cash provided by the licensee to a patron and subsequently wonor byits theaffiliate licensee,has fornot whichbeen thereimbursed.ee licensee can demonstrate that it or3. its affiliate has not been reimbursed.
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The Board shall, within the limits of legislative appropriations or authorizations, employ and fix the salaries of or contract for the services of such professional, technical and operational personnel and consultants as the execution of its duties and the operation of the Board and Commission may require.require.its duties 4.
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[Employees described in NRS 284.148 are subject to the limitations specified in that section.] - *AB8_R1* – 6 – 5.
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The Board shall establish, and modify as necessary, a comprehensive plan governing employment, job classifications and performance standards, and retention or discharge of employees to assure that termination or other adverse action is not taken against suchfor employeeshearings exceptin personnel matters and for cause.review of adverse actions taken in those matters.
The plan must include provisions for hearings in personnel matters and for review of adverse actions taken in those matters.
The credit instrument and the debt that the credit instrument represents are enforceable without regard toafter whether the creditdebt instrumentis incurred.ument was accepted before, at the time or after4. the debt is incurred.
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- *AB8_R1* – 7 – (a) Is not a defense in any action by a licensee or a person acting on behalf of a licensee to enforce a credit instrument or the debt that the credit instrument represents.
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The failure of a person to comply with the provisions of this section or the regulations of the Commission does not invalidate a credit instrument or affect the ability to enforce the credit instrument or the debt that the credit instrument represents.represents.it 8.
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Unless the Commission specifies by regulation a shorter period in which a [slot machine] wagering voucher must be redeemed, upon the expiration date [printed on] assigned to a [slot machine] wagering voucher issued in this State or 180 days after a wager is placed, whichever period is less, the obligation of the nonrestricted licensee to pay the patron any value remaining on a [slot machine] wagering voucher expires.
any value remaining on a 3.
- *AB8_R1* – 8 – 5.
6.- 81st Session (2021) – 8 – voucher” means a printed wagering instrument, or digital] “wagering representation thereof, issued by a gaming establishment operating under a nonrestricted license, that has a fixed dollar wagering value which can only be used to acquire an equivalent value of cashable credits or cash.
As used in this section, [“slot machine wagering] “wagering voucher” means a printed wagering instrument, or digital representation thereof, issued by a gaming establishment operating under a nonrestricted license, that has a fixed dollar wagering value which can only be used to acquire an equivalent value of cashable credits or cash.
or (b) A monthly fee on all cash or other compensation received by the licensee or any affiliate of the licensee in payment of any credit instrument received as a result of that gaming operation which isisredit held by the licensee or any affiliate of the licensee and remains unpaid on the last tax day.
To secure payment of the monthly fee, the licensee must make a cash deposit or post and maintain a surety bond or other acceptable form of security with the Commission in an amount determined by applying the rate derived pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 2 to the value of all collectible credit instruments.instruments.) of 4.] 2.
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(b) “Value of collectible credit instruments” means the amount of cash or other compensation the licensee may reasonably expect to receive in payment of unpaid credit instruments after conclusion of - *AB8_R1* – 9 – the licensee’s gaming operation, taking into account all relevant factors.
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As used in this section:
(b) “Gaming chip or token” means any object which may be redeemed at an establishment for cash or any other representative of value other than a [slot machine] wagering voucher as defined inein of NRS 463.369.
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Amendments
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Action History
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Approved by the Governor. Chapter 251.
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Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
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Senate Amendment No. 497 concurred in. To enrollment.
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In Assembly.
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From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
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From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 497.) To printer.
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In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
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From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
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Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 136.) To printer.
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From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Taken from Second Reading File. Placed on Second Reading File for next legislative day.
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To committee.
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Read first time.
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From printer.
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Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.
Sponsors
- Assembly Committee on Judiciary · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 66 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
- Assembly Committee on Judiciary
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (66)
66 members have not signed on to this bill.
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