{"id":22000,"date":"2016-05-19T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/walker-signs-bill-clearing-way-for-dave-busters\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:02:19","slug":"walker-signs-bill-clearing-way-for-dave-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/walker-signs-bill-clearing-way-for-dave-busters\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker signs bill clearing way for Dave &#038; Buster&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU<\/strong> \u2014 Gov. Bill Walker has signed into law legislation that would clear the way for the restaurant Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s to do business in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, from Sen. Lesil McGuire, makes clear that businesses with arcade-style games in which tokens can be redeemed for onsite toys and candy or claw machines used to grab goodies from a machine are not considered gambling operations.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire, in her sponsor statement, said the bill was necessitated by vague state laws that made the legality of such operations unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The president and CEO of the Alaska Chamber said the bill would provide a measure of confidence to Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s, which is looking at doing business in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, in a release, said any effort to diversify the state\u2019s economy and put more Alaskans to work is a positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 Gov. Bill Walker has signed into law legislation that would clear the way for the restaurant Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s to do <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/business\/\">business<\/a> in Alaska. The bill, from Sen. Lesil McGuire, makes clear that businesses with arcade-style games in which tokens can be redeemed for onsite toys and candy or claw machines used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}