HJ63:

Legal gaming; JLARC to study whether stand-alone oversight agcy. would allow more focused oversight.

Bill Summary:

Study; JLARC; whether a stand-alone gaming oversight
agency would allow for more focused oversight of all types of legal
gaming in the Commonwealth and alleviate potential conflicts of interest;
report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission
to study whether a stand-alone gaming oversight agency would allow
for more focused oversight of all types of legal gaming in the Commonwealth
and alleviate potential conflicts of interest by (i) evaluating whether
the current oversight and regulatory structure of the different types
of legal gaming result in varying compliance standards with regard
to similar gaming devices which could unintentionally cause a competitive
advantage to one industry over another; (ii) reporting on the current
costs for each existing gaming oversight agency to regulate the gaming
for which it is responsible; (iii) determining whether the overall
costs to oversee, regulate, and enforce violations of legal gaming
in the Commonwealth would be lower if all such types of gaming were
housed under a stand-alone gaming oversight agency; (iv) conducting
research to determine potential methods of housing, and the steps
necessary to house, all legalized gaming under a stand-alone gaming
oversight agency; and (v) determining the potential necessity for
and specific composition of a centralized gaming oversight board
that would best ensure compliance with ethical requirements and a
substantial decrease in the number of potential conflicts of interest.