WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2444

By Delegates Criss and Maynor

[Introduced February 17, 2025; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §29-22B-1406 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to limiting financial records of limited video lottery permittees that are subject to examination by Lottery Commission.  

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 22B. Limited Video Lottery.  

Part XIV. Net Terminal Income and Distribution of Revenues.

§29-22B-1406. Examination of permittee books and records.

The commission has the right to examine all accounts, bank accounts, financial statements, and records in a permittee's possession, for only the limited video lottery business that is under it’s the permittee's control or in which it the permittee has an interest and the licensed permittee shall authorize all third parties in possession or in control of the accounts or records to allow examination of any of those accounts or records by the commission.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to limit the Lottery Commission’s inspection of records to records relating to the permittee’s limited video lottery business.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.