WA People
BILL · 1991–92 SESSION

HB 2597: Video game cards

Authorizing video card games.

Summary

  • Authorizes video card games by businesses primarily engaged in the selling of food or drink for consumption on the premises. Requires the games to have a minimum payout of eighty percent of the amounts played into the machine. Levies a tax on all video card games to be paid into the general fund.

From the Bill Digest (HB 2597), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 22, 1992
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Moyne Riley (D-19)
Introduced
January 22, 1992 in the House
Last action
January 22, 1992
Companion bill
SB 6436
Budget
Has a fiscal note

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Moyne Riley (D-19)

14 co-sponsors (9 Democrats, 5 Republicans)

Rose Bowman R-20Brian Ebersole D-29Bill Brumsickle R-20Dennis Braddock D-42Barbara Lisk R-15Marlin Appelwick D-46Randolph Dorn D-2Richard King D-38Eugene Prince R-9Simeon Wilson R-10Peter Kremen D-42William Day D-3Senator D-35Calvin Anderson D-43

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

The Legislature's online data doesn't include step-by-step history for sessions before 2001. Its final status is shown above, and the official bill page may have more.

HB 2597 in other sessions

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