OLR Bill Analysis
AN ACT EXPANDING THE ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY OF THE DIVISION OF SPECIAL REVENUE.
This bill updates and makes changes in the laws governing the (1) regulatory authority of the Division of Special Revenue (DSR) and (2) criminal enforcement authority of DSR special police officers and the State Police legalized gambling investigative unit.
DSR was established in 1979 to regulate gambling and has regulated charitable gaming since 1987. The bill updates the 1979 law to reflect DSR's current regulatory authority and to conform the 1979 law to other statutes. It also gives DSR special police officers and the State Police legalized gambling investigative unit the same criminal enforcement authority over charitable gaming violations that the units have over other gaming DSR regulates.
The bill restores the explicit authority that DSR had to regulate the Connecticut lottery until 1996 when the Connecticut Lottery Corporation (CLC) was created and the laws governing CLC and DSR were, for the most part, codified in separate chapters. It also restores the explicit criminal enforcement authority of DSR special police officers and the State Police legalized gambling investigative unit over all lottery laws and violations. A separate law, which the bill does not change, gives the law enforcement officials criminal enforcement authority over the conduct of lottery games (CGS § 29-18c).
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
BACKGROUND
Licensing Authority
CGS § 12-557e requires the Gaming Policy Board to work with DSR to implement and administer the provisions of chapters 226b (pari-mutuel wagering), 229a (CLC), and CGS §§ 7-169 to 7-186 (charitable gaming). But other DSR enforcement regulatory statutes do not cite chapters 229a and §§ 7-169 to 7-186.
CLC became a quasi-public corporation in 1996 and most of the provisions governing lottery were codified in a new chapter (229a).
COMMITTEE ACTION
Public Safety and Security Committee
Joint Favorable
Yea |
23 |
Nay |
0 |
(02/28/2008) |