Senate Bill sb0744e1

    CS for SB 744                                  First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to cash transactions; amending

  3         s. 551.121, F.S.; prohibiting a slot machine

  4         licensee from allowing automatic teller

  5         machines to be located in certain areas of a

  6         pari-mutuel facility; prohibiting a slot

  7         machine licensee from accepting or cashing

  8         checks in the designated slot machine gaming

  9         areas; amending s. 655.966, F.S.; authorizing

10         machine owners or operators to impose access

11         fees or surcharges for machine use; providing

12         fee or surcharge disclosure requirements;

13         providing certain agreement prohibitions

14         relating to machine access fees or surcharges;

15         providing for construction relating to certain

16         fee-free or surcharge-free network agreements;

17         providing an effective date.

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19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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21         Section 1.  Subsections (3) and (4) of section 551.121,

22  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

23         551.121  Prohibited activities and devices.--

24         (3)  A slot machine licensee may not allow any

25  automated teller machine or similar device designed to provide

26  credit or dispense cash to be located within the designated

27  slot machine gaming areas of a facility of a facilities of the

28  slot machine licensee.

29         (4)  A slot machine licensee may not accept or cash any

30  personal, third-party, corporate, business, or

31  government-issued check from any person within the designated


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    CS for SB 744                                  First Engrossed



 1  slot machine gaming areas of a facility of a slot machine

 2  licensee.

 3         Section 2.  Section 655.966, Florida Statutes, is

 4  amended to read:

 5         655.966  Automated teller machine; surcharge

 6  disclosure.--

 7         (1)  The operator or owner of an automated teller

 8  machine in this state may charge an access fee or surcharge to

 9  a customer for the use of that machine. The fee or surcharge

10  must be disclosed in compliance with 12 C.F.R., part 205, as

11  amended.

12         (2)(a)  Subject to the requirements of subsection (1),

13  an agreement to operate or share an automated teller machine

14  may not prohibit, limit, or restrict the right of the operator

15  or owner of an automated teller machine, as defined in s.

16  655.960(3), to may charge an access fee or surcharge, not

17  otherwise prohibited under state or federal law, to a customer

18  conducting a transaction using an account from a financial

19  institution, as defined in s. 655.005(1)(h), which is located

20  outside of the United States.

21         (b)  Notwithstanding paragraph (a), nothing in this

22  section shall be construed to prohibit or otherwise limit the

23  ability of an operator or owner of an automated teller machine

24  to voluntarily enter into an agreement regarding participation

25  in an access fee-free or surcharge-free network.

26         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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