{"id":299424,"date":"2026-10-04T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299424\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:22:08","slug":"as-deadline-looms-local-lawmaker-introduces-bills-to-legalize-tax-skill-games-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299424\/","title":{"rendered":"As deadline looms, local lawmaker Introduces bills to legalize, tax skill games | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa.- With the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/pennsylvania\/pa-ag-urges-businesses-to-remove-skill-games-by-oct-14-risk-law-enforcement-taking\/article_c573b31e-c07e-464f-aa0b-b9c977fdb489.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadline looming to remove skill games<\/a>, some officials are proposing a bill that would tax skill games to provide property tax relief.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Attorney General is advising business owners with \u201cskill games\u201d terminals to remove them by Oct. 14, after a ruling by the state\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Business owners who don\u2019t take compliance steps by that date risk the machines being seized on their property, Attorney General Dave Sunday said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Russ Diamond, the Republican representative from Lebanon County, introduced two bills that would allow bars, restaurants and qualified truck stops to have five skill games machines.<\/p>\n<p>It would also tack on a 20 percent tax on these machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Bill 2801 and House Bill 2802, which would give homeowner in Pennsylvania, well 96% of homeowners in Pennsylvania, will get more property tax relief out of gaming revenue if these bills passed,\u201d Diamond explained.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond asks you to call your legislators to vote for this bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa.- With the deadline looming to remove skill games, some officials are proposing a bill that would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,123475,123472,123473,123474,393,28,18524,122669,1979,22724],"class_list":["post-299424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bars-and-restaurants","tag-gaming-machines","tag-house-bill-2801","tag-house-bill-2802","tag-legislation","tag-pennsylvania","tag-property-tax","tag-russ-diamond","tag-skill-games","tag-tax-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}