THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, BAKER, BEAR, BENNINGHOFF, BOYD, COX, CREIGHTON, DENLINGER, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GABIG, GEIST, GINGRICH, GROVE, HENNESSEY, HESS, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, KRIEGER, MAHER, MOUL, M. O'BRIEN, PICKETT, QUINN, RAPP, REED, ROCK, SCAVELLO, SHAPIRO, STERN, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TALLMAN, R. TAYLOR, VULAKOVICH AND WATSON, MARCH 18, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAMING OVERSIGHT, MARCH 18, 2010  

AN ACT

Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for table game taxes.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 13A62(a) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, added January 7, 2010 (P.L.1, No.1), is

amended to read:

§ 13A62.  Table game taxes.

(a)  Imposition.--

(1)  Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), each

certificate holder shall report to the department and pay

from its daily gross table game revenue, on a form and in the

manner prescribed by the department, a tax of [12%] 25% of

its daily gross table game revenue.

(2)  In addition to the tax payable under paragraph (1),

each certificate holder shall report to the department and

pay from its daily gross table game revenue, on a form and in

the manner prescribed by the department, a tax of 34% of its

daily gross table game revenue from each table game played on

a fully automated electronic gaming table.

(3)  The tax reported and payable under paragraph (1) by

each certificate holder shall be [14%] 27% of daily gross

table game revenue for a period of two years following

commencement of table games operations at its licensed

facility.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.