Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 790
       
       
        
       By Senator Lee
       
       
       
       
       
       24-01096-16                                            2016790__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the state lottery; amending s.
    3         24.105, F.S.; providing a limitation on the number of
    4         scratch-off games available for sale by the Department
    5         of the Lottery; providing a limitation on the sales
    6         price of lottery tickets; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (9) of
   11  section 24.105, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   12         24.105 Powers and duties of department.—The department
   13  shall:
   14         (9) Adopt rules governing the establishment and operation
   15  of the state lottery, including:
   16         (a) The type of lottery games to be conducted, except that:
   17         1. No name of an elected official shall appear on the
   18  ticket or play slip of any lottery game or on any prize or on
   19  any instrument used for the payment of prizes, unless such prize
   20  is in the form of a state warrant.
   21         2. No coins or currency shall be dispensed from any
   22  electronic computer terminal or device used in any lottery game.
   23         3. Other than as specifically provided in s. 24.112, no
   24  terminal or device may be used for any lottery game which may be
   25  operated solely by the player without the assistance of the
   26  retailer.
   27         4. The number of scratch-off games which may be available
   28  for sale by the department at any one time may not exceed 20.
   29         (b) The sales price of tickets, not to exceed $5.
   30         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.