Sec. 3. Retroactivity. This Act applies retroactively to January 1, 2001.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

FISCAL NOTE

The Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources and the Department of Public Safety will incur some minor additional costs to submit a required report to the Legislature. These costs can be absorbed within the departments' existing budgeted resources.

SUMMARY

A minority of the Joint Standing Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs voted to report out this bill pursuant to Joint Order 2001, House Paper 1332. Current law requires that, beginning January 1, 2001, agricultural fairs licensed to conduct games of chance must use tokens or tickets to conduct those games unless the games are operated by a member of the agricultural fair society or a bona fide nonprofit entity. For-profit entities hired by the fair are required to use tokens or tickets when operating the games. This bill amends the law by extending by one year the date that fairs are required to comply. It also requires the State Police and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over games of chance by January 15, 2002 and 2003. This bill is retroactive to January 1, 2001.