PA BLCE Small Games of Chance Website gets a new Look

The PA Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement (and the PA State Police) have been updated and seems friendlier and appears to be easier to navigate.

Check out the new look for yourself…

http://www.psp.pa.gov/LCE/Pages/Small-Games-of-Chance.aspx#.VAjnW4d0wr0

Don't forget there is only ONE Food and Beverage Point of Sale and Ticket Tracking, Recording and Reporting system that files electronically with the PA Department of Revenue AND Creates ALL of the PA BLCE Recommended Schedules!   The Sienna Database System! 
You can find us here:  www.myersintsystems.com
OR
email us at support@myersintsystems.com OR Call 844-GET-SGOC - (844) 438-7462
and Schedule a Demo of our system!

 

 

 

PA Small Games of Chance YouTube Video

Even though the presentation is in front of Catholic Church/Non Profit licensee's, I strongly suggest you at least listen to the presentation as Officer Todd Merlina does an excellent job explaining the recent law changes. 

Below is the video description posted with the YouTube video:

Published on Feb 27, 2014
Todd Merlina is an Enforcement Supervisor with the Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement. He provided this training on the PA Small Games of Chance laws and regulations on February 12, 2014 at the Cardinal Keeler Center, Harrisburg. This training is to help individuals be more aware of illegal gambling and to understand how to conduct games of chance for the purpose of raising funds legally. More information is available at http://www.Lce.state.pa.us

You can find the YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIHd4rE-b6k

Note:
Customers and/or Business Partners of Myers Integrated Systems, LLC that registered to access our 'Insiders Only Forum' have known about the video above for several weeks.  

PA Liquor Control Board lowers Tavern gaming license fee to $500

As expected, the PA LCB has lowered the Tavern gaming license fee from $2000 to $500.

Click here to read an article providing more details.







Resources:
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6531847-74/tavern-games-gaming?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20alltribstories%20(TribLIVE%20News)#axzz392enn6x1

PA Liquor Control Enforcement Bureau’s PowerPoint presentation Breakdown

Below are several excerpts from our review of the PA Liquor Control Enforcement Bureau’s latest PowerPoint presentation.   

                                                                                                     

If you are a current customer of any of our SDS family of software products you can register for access to our SDS Forum where you can read our comprehensive analysis of PA Small Games of Chance Laws and how it impacts you.  Our customers received an email last week letting them know they can register in our forum and begin reading our review of the BLCE’s PowerPoint. 

If you are one of our customers and you did NOT receive an email from us last week please email us at support@myersintsystems.com and supply your customer name and contact information.  Please reference SGOC Forum access in the subject line.

pasmallgamesofchance.blogspot.com

We will continue to post general updates regarding PA SGOC laws on this blog, however our in-depth analysis will be accessible only to our customers and partners. 

Myers Integrated Systems, LLC is the LONE PIONEER of the premier and most comprehensive PA Small Games of Chance Tracking, Recording and Reporting System and we are proud to now offer our Sienna Point of Sale System that has many features including tracking inventory, producing drink slips (instead of drink chips) with expiration dates (if you want) and many more features.  Our POS system is so easy to use you can literally start entering your products and inventory within 1 minute of logging into the system.

Our Insiders Only Forum is one of the many benefits of selecting the only Point of Sale/Small Games of Chance Tracking system ever approved by the PA Department of Revenue.

You can check out our website by clicking here.

Below our Excerpts of our BLCE's Powerpoint Breakdown from our Insiders Only Forum:

We strongly recommend you download and read the PowerPoint posted for yourself.  If you have questions regarding Pennsylvania Small Games of Chance laws call your local PA Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement office.   The PowerPoint can be found here.

~D. Kelly Myers

www.myersintsystems.com

Resources:

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance/501941

http://www.myersintsystems.com/forum.html

PA SGOC - Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement Posts Updated Interpretation

The Pennsylvania BLCE has posted their updated interpretation of the PA Small Games of Chance laws via a Small Games of Chance Charitable Organization PowerPoint Presentation file you can download.

You can download the pdf file by clicking on the link below;

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/document/1422826/sgoc_-_public-_eligable_organizations-clubs_pdf

We will be reviewing this updated PowerPoint/PDF and we will update this blog if there is anything new that the Bureau's Interpretation may identify that we have not already previously listed and/or addressed.

Hope you are all having a safe and fun 4th of July and spending time with your family and friends.

God Bless all of our current and past US military soldiers for our being able to celebrate our freedom.

Resources:

http://www.lce.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance/501941

PA SGOC Tavern Gaming Legislation Proposals

If you have been reading this blog you would know that we predicted (as did many of you) that the PA Legislatures would be proposing legislation to make obtaining a Tavern Gaming license more attractive and a less complicated event for the thousands of eligible organizations that were originally expected to apply.

After reading an informative article from Steve Silver published on the Philadephia Business Journal website (see link below in the resource section), there is proposed legislation in place that is gaining support.

I suggest you read the article, however below I list the bullet points as it pertains to changes that will make obtaining a Tavern Gaming license more attractive:

·         Lowers Initial fee from $4,000 to $2,000 (which will include the cost of the license for the first year)

·         Removes the $1000 15 year FBI Background check

·         Changes owners profit from 35% to 45%

o   50% goes to State and 5% goes to local municipality

·         Separates a Gaming violation from Liquor Code Violation.  Having a gaming violation will no long impact Taverns Liquor License standing.

o   Gaming Violations will be fined and will lose their license after a 3^rd violation.

 

PA HB1932

In addition to the Tavern Gaming License information in Mr. Silvers article you will find there is optimism regarding the eventual passing of HB1932.  HB1932 will allow regulated video gaming in liquor licensed establishments.  This would also legalize regulated electronic bingo, black jack and other games in liquor or brewed beverage licensed establishments.

Distributors and Manufacturers will have to $10,000 just for a license for the video games.  The vendors that sell to the distributors will have to pay a whopping $25,000 for the first 50 machines and an additional $500 per machine after 50.

Please read the article as there is additional information regarding the HB1932 legislation that I have not included in my summary above.

Blog writers note:

We will soon be opening up our Gaming Forum for our SDS SGOC customers.  The forum is a place where we will post Small Games of Chance and Charity Gaming details that will not be posted on this public Blog.  We will (on occasion) open part of the forum to specific guests.

If you are a current SDS SGOC customer and you would like access to our Gaming forum when it is available, please email us or contact us via our contact page and include your name and the Post and/or Fraternal organization that you are with and we will reply with a username and password for you to access our insiders-only Gaming forum when it becomes available. 

http://www.myersintsystems.com/contact.html

 

 

Resources:

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/guest-comment/2014/06/pennsylvania-tavern-gaming-may-make-a-comeback.html

PA SGOC Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement Publishes updated Schedules

The PA BLCE published new and updated Schedules for all SGOC licensees. 

As of this blog post (April 27, 2014), The bottom of the PA BLCE SGOC page still has a message stating they are reviewing recent changes, however it appears they posted their interpretation and as previously reported in this blog, the PA BLCE interpretation is 'in-line' with the PA Department of Revenue's published interpretation.

What’s old?

You will want to ignore the last document listed on the site as it appears to be an older version of the Bureau’s interpretation.  The document references of $5000 max payout and keeping winners information for prizes $101.  These totals are no longer accurate.  The current total requirements are stated in the first pdf file listed which is the ‘Explanation of SGOC Schedules”.

Ignore this document;

 

 

What’s new?

The Schedule 3 description clearly states (as does the PA Dept. of Revenues) that licensees requirement for recording prizes in excess of $600.  I personally know of many organizations that are still recording the winners over $100.  Please note that you can continue to record the winners information for the over $100 winners if you wish, however the requirement is now greater than $600 so you do not have to keep winners information if it is not greater than $600.

    Schedule 3 description;

Schedule 8, Race Night Records

Ignore Schedule 7, Pools as it is not legal and will not be used;

Are there any organizations that are planning on having the Race Nights?  If so, please know you can only have 1 every calendar month. 

Of course our Sienna Database System will be modified to include the Schedule 8 Race Night. 

If you have any questions or comments or would like a demonstration of our Point of Sale and/or SDS Small Games of Chance Compliance systems please leave a comment and/or contact us at DKellyMyers@myersintsystems.com or call 1-844-GET-SGOC (1-844-438-7462).

Resources:
http://www.lce.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance_schedules/501941