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Committee hears bill to restore 49‑ball coverall and industry debate over bingo prize limits
Summary
Senate Bill 73 would restore longstanding bingo practice by specifying a 49‑ball coverall; the hearing also revisited a separate, unresolved industry request to raise a per‑game prize cap that split smaller and larger operators.
Senate Bill 73, which would amend authorized bingo rules to restore a 49‑ball coverall, received mostly supportive testimony in the Senate Ways and Means Committee public hearing.
Sponsor Sen. Tim Lang, R‑District 2, told the committee the bill corrects a drafting mismatch between the statute and current industry practice. “Apparently, we do 49. Somewhere in some bill we change it to 50. However, the operators were never notified. They've been working under 49 all along,” Lang said. The bill’s remaining language had been narrowed in the Senate to the single change…
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