Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB633: Gaming - Slot Machines - Skills-Based Amusement Devices
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
Altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award merchandise, tickets, tokens, or other objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accumulated and exchanged for noncash merchandise or prizes of value that is similar to the cumulated value of the objects exchanged, and does not exceed a minimal wholesale value of $599.
What the bill says
An act concerning Gaming - Slot Machines - Skills-Based Amusement Devices FOR the purpose of altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award certain objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accumulated and exchanged for merchandise or prizes of a certain value; and generally relating to slot machines and skills-based amusement devices…
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Gaming - Slot Machines - Skills-Based Amusement Devices FOR the purpose of altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award certain objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accumulated and exchanged for merchandise or prizes of a certain value; and generally relating to slot machines and skills-based amusement devices. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Criminal Law Section 12-301(3) Annotated Code of Maryland (2021 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Criminal Law 12-301. In this subtitle: (3) "slot machine" does not include a machine, apparatus, or device (ii) awards the user only noncash merchandise or noncash prizes of minimal value; (iii) dispenses paper pull tab tip jar tickets or paper pull tab instant bingo tickets that must be opened manually by the user provided that the machine, apparatus, or device does 2. alert the user to a winning or losing ticket; or 3. tabulate a player's winnings and losses; Ch. 290 2025 LAWS OF MARYLAND (iv) 1. is a handheld device that displays only facsimiles of bingo cards that an individual uses to mark and monitor contemporaneously …