HB8 Alabama 2016 1st Special Session Session

Under existing law, the operation of bingo games by qualifying nonprofit organizations in Etowah County is authorized by Amendment 506 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901

This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to define bingo to include bingo played on any electronic machine or device authorized under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and operated by a Native American tribe in Alabama and played at a single location in Etowah County, create the Etowah County Gaming Commission and provide for its duties and powers, impose a local gross receipts tax of 12.5 percent on gaming revenue and a local bingo game vendor tax of four percent and provide for the distribution of the proceeds, and create the Etowah County Interstate 759 Extension Authority to which a portion of the proceeds would be distributed for specified purposes

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901; to provide that the game of bingo in Etowah County may be played on any electronic machine or device that is authorized pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and is operated by any Native American tribe in Alabama at a single location in Etowah County; to levy a local gross receipts tax on bingo gaming revenue; to levy a tax on vendors of bingo game equipment; to provide for the allocation of the proceeds of the taxes; to create the Etowah County Gaming Commission to implement, regulate, and administer bingo gaming; and to create the Etowah County Interstate 759 Commission to which a portion of the tax proceeds will be distributed for specified purposes.