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Senate panel rejects bill to let 55+ communities run regular cash bingo without a nonprofit sponsor

2136724 · January 20, 2025
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A Senate subcommittee rejected a bill that would let 55+ common‑interest communities and assisted‑living facilities run recurring low‑stakes cash bingo without a nonprofit sponsor.

A Senate subcommittee declined to advance a bill that would have amended Title 18.2 to allow 55-and-older common-interest communities, assisted-living and independent-living facilities to conduct recurring low-stakes cash bingo without a 501(c)(3) sponsor.

Senate Bill 1241, presented by its patron, argued the current permitting and sponsorship system is onerous for small senior communities. Supporters — including residents and HOA leaders from Del Webb and Celebrate communities and a number of speakers who described social and mental-health benefits of regular bingo — said the change would restore a longstanding…

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