Game vendors would pay a 25% tax, partly funding highways

Vendors would have paid 25% of their net proceeds from skill-based amusement games to the gaming commission. The tax would have covered vendors of skill-based amusement games. Vendors could have prepaid the tax under gaming commission rules. Weekly payments would have covered the prior week's net proceeds. The proposed effective date was July 1, 2026.

The gaming commission would have sent collected taxes to the state treasurer for deposit and distribution. The shares would have been 20% for the state highway fund, 36% for local governments, 36% for the public school foundation program account, and 8% for the commission gaming account. The local share would have been split equally between the county and the city or town where the game was located. Outside city or town limits, the county would have received the whole local share. The proposed revenue split would have taken effect July 1, 2026.