COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH
OVERSIGHT DIVISION
FISCAL NOTE
L.R. NO.: 3810-04
BILL NO.: SB 888
SUBJECT: Conservation Department; Gambling; Crimes and Punishment; Licenses-Misc.; Banks and Financial Institutions.
TYPE: Original
DATE: February 14, 2000
FISCAL SUMMARY
| FUND AFFECTED | FY 2001 | FY 2002 | FY 2003 |
| General Revenue | (unknown) | (unknown) | (unknown) |
| Total Estimated
Net Effect on All State Funds |
(expected to be less than $100,000) | (expected to be less than $100,000) | (expected to be less than $100,000) |
| FUND AFFECTED | FY 2001 | FY 2002 | FY 2003 |
| Total Estimated
Net Effect on All Federal Funds |
$0 | $0 | $0 |
| FUND AFFECTED | FY 2001 | FY 2002 | FY 2003 |
| Local Government | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Numbers within parentheses: ( ) indicate costs or losses
This fiscal note contains 4 pages.
ASSUMPTION
Officials from the Missouri Gaming Commission (GAM) state this proposal changes regulatory requirements for riverboat casinos. They assume the proposal will have no fiscal impact on their agency.
Officials from the State Public Defender (SPD) assumes that existing staff could provide representation for those five to ten cases arising where indigent persons were charged with lying to the Gaming Commission. They go on to state, however, passage of more than one similar bill would require the State Public Defender System to request increased appropriations to cover cumulative costs of representing the indigent accused in additional cases.
Officials from the Department of Conservation (MDC) state this proposal places restrictions on gaming boat licensees concerning facility use and location of other businesses. The MDC assumes the proposed legislation impinges on Commission authority to sell land. There are no prospects to sell land to a gaming facility and the MDC assumes the fiscal impact is unknown.
Officials from the Office of Prosecution Services and the State Courts assume this proposal will not fiscally impact their agencies.
In a similar proposal from this year, officials from the Department of Corrections assumed this proposal will not encompass a large number of offenders that will require either incarceration or supervision and have assumed this proposal will cause minimal to no fiscal impact on their agency.
Oversight assumes that GAM will seek prosecution where applicable and the impact of this proposed legislation is unknown, but should be less than $100,000 per year due to supervision or incarceration costs to the Department of Corrections for the few expected offenders.
FISCAL IMPACT - State Government FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003
GENERAL REVENUE FUND
Costs - Department of Corrections
Supervision or incarceration
of convicted offenders (unknown) (unknown) (unknown)
FISCAL IMPACT - State Government FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003
(continued)
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON (UNKNOWN) (UNKNOWN) (UNKNOWN)
GENERAL REVENUE FUND
FISCAL IMPACT - Local Government FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003
$0 $0 $0
FISCAL IMPACT - Small Business
Future small title lenders and loan businesses would be fiscally impacted by this proposal.
DESCRIPTION
Under this act, the Conservation Commission is prohibited from selling, leasing or conveying property owned by the Department of Conservation to any gaming facility.
The act also places a gambling boat licensee's bond or other form of surety, and license renewal, at risk if an expansion or modification of the boat, which has been approved by the Missouri Gaming Commission, is not completed within two years of the date of approval.
This act makes it a crime to make a false statement or submit a false application to the Missouri Gaming Commission. In such a case, the Commission could impose any of the penalties otherwise authorized for violations and, if charged in court, a person could be found guilty of a Class D felony (1-5 years).
The act also prohibits title lenders and small loan companies from establishing a business within five miles of an excursion gambling boat dock or facility after the effective date of this act.
This act is substantially similar to SB 168 (1999).
This act has an emergency clause for certain sections.
This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Missouri Gaming Commission
Office of the State Courts Administrator
Department of Corrections
Office of the State Public Defender
Office of Prosecution Services
Missouri Department of Conservation
Jeanne Jarrett, CPA
Director
February 14, 2000