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Bill 2727 (note, this is not the entire bill, click the following link if you want to see the entire bill): https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2018/bills/HB2727_.pdf

 "§481B-A  Video games; probability rates; disclosure.  (a)  Video game publishers that distribute video games that contain a system of further purchasing:

     (1)  A randomized reward or rewards; or

     (2)  A consumable virtual item that can be redeemed and directly or indirectly converted to a randomized reward or rewards,

shall prominently disclose and publish to the consumer the probability rates of receiving each type of randomized reward or rewards at the time of purchase and at the time any mechanism to receive a randomized reward or rewards is activated so as to meaningfully inform the consumer's decision prior to the purchase or activation of any mechanism to receive a randomized reward or rewards.

 §481B-B Video games; labelling; disclosure.  (a)  Each video game subject to section 481B-A shall:

     (1)  Bear a prominent, easily legible, bright red label on its packaging which reads: "Warning: contains in-game purchases and gambling-like mechanisms which may be harmful or addictive"; or

     (2)  If purchased digitally and downloaded through the Internet or an online application, prominently disclose to the consumer at the time of consumer purchase a bright red label that is easily legible and which reads: "Warning: contains in-game purchases and gambling-like mechanisms which may be harmful or addictive", so as to meaningfully inform the consumer's decision prior to purchase.

     (b)  No video game publisher shall at any time modify a game to contain or otherwise permit the inclusion of additional content for which the game was not appropriately labeled at the time of original sale."

Bill 2686 (note, this is not the entire bill, click the following link if you want to see the entire bill): https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2018/bills/HB2686_.pdf

"§481B-  Video games; restrictions.  (a)  It shall be unlawful for any retailer to sell to any person under twenty-one years of age a video game that contains a system of further purchasing:

     (1)  A randomized reward or rewards; or

     (2)  A virtual item which can be redeemed to directly or indirectly receive a randomized reward or rewards