{"id":410,"date":"2020-04-17T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/?p=410"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:30:15","slug":"governor-returns-virginia-gambling-legislation-with-amendments-including-tax-for-covid-19-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/2020\/04\/17\/governor-returns-virginia-gambling-legislation-with-amendments-including-tax-for-covid-19-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Returns Virginia Gambling Legislation with Amendments, Including Tax for COVID-19 Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u00a0March 17\u00a0<a title=\"Virginia General Assembly Passes Expansive Gambling Legislation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/virginia_general_assembly_passes_expansive_gambling_legislation_0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Alert<\/i><\/a>, we reported that Virginia\u2019s General Assembly had sent Governor Ralph Northam two bills (Senate Bill 36 and House Bill 896), which, if signed, would permit five land-based casinos, online sports betting and up to 2,000 additional historical horse racing machines in the commonwealth. On the April 11 deadline to take action on the bills, Governor Northam returned them, each unsigned, to the Virginia legislature with amendments. While the governor\u2019s proposed changes to the two bills appear minor (for example, they did not change tax rates, minimum capital expenditure requirements or the types of games), a new proposal would further expand gaming in Virginia, at least temporarily, by permitting and taxing skill-based machines in bars, convenience stores and truck stops to raise money for a COVID-19 relief fund.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>:\u00a0On April 22, 2020, both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly approved Governor Northam\u2019s amendments to the casino and sports betting bills, thus effectively making both bills Virginia law.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/governor_returns_virginia_gambling_legislation_amendments_including_tax_covid19_fund_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a \u00a0March 17\u00a0Alert, we reported that Virginia\u2019s General Assembly had sent Governor Ralph Northam two bills (Senate Bill 36 and House Bill 896), which, if signed, would permit five land-based casinos, online sports betting and up to 2,000 additional historical horse racing machines in the commonwealth. On the April 11 deadline to take action &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/2020\/04\/17\/governor-returns-virginia-gambling-legislation-with-amendments-including-tax-for-covid-19-fund\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Governor Returns Virginia Gambling Legislation with Amendments, Including Tax for COVID-19 Fund&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88,246,245,255,254,115],"ppma_author":[271],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-casinos","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-horse-racing-machines","tag-online-sports-betting","tag-virginia"],"authors":[{"term_id":271,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}