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House Study Bill 689

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 99E.9, subsection 3, paragraph g, Code
  1  2 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    g.  The frequency of selection of winning tickets or
  1  4 shares.  Drawings shall be held in public.  Drawings shall be
  1  5 witnessed by an independent certified public accountant.
  1  6 Equipment used to select winning tickets or shares or
  1  7 participants for prizes shall be examined by lottery division
  1  8 employees and an independent certified public accountant prior
  1  9 to and after each public drawing.
  1 10    Sec. 2.  Section 99E.9, subsection 4, Code 1997, is amended
  1 11 to read as follows:
  1 12    4.  The board and the commissioner may enter into written
  1 13 agreements or compacts with another state or states or one or
  1 14 more political subdivisions of another state or states for the
  1 15 operation, marketing, and promotion of a joint lottery or
  1 16 joint lottery games.  For the purposes of this subsection, a
  1 17 state or a political subdivision of a state includes a
  1 18 district, territory, or protectorate of the United States and
  1 19 any nation and its political subdivisions which is a signatory
  1 20 to the North American free trade agreement.
  1 21    Sec. 3.  Section 99E.18, subsection 4, Code 1997, is
  1 22 amended to read as follows:
  1 23    4.  A person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes,
  1 24 alters, forges, utters, passes, redeems, or counterfeits a
  1 25 lottery ticket or share or attempts to falsely make, alter,
  1 26 forge, utter, pass, redeem, or counterfeit a lottery ticket or
  1 27 share, or commits theft or attempts to commit theft of a
  1 28 lottery ticket or share, is guilty of a class "D" felony.  
  1 29                           EXPLANATION 
  1 30    This bill provides that lottery division employees are no
  1 31 longer responsible for examining the lottery equipment which
  1 32 selects the winning ticket or participants for a prize before
  1 33 and after each drawing.  An independent certified accountant
  1 34 is given this duty alone.
  1 35    The bill also authorizes the lottery board and commissioner
  2  1 to enter into agreements for lottery purposes with any
  2  2 district, territory, or protectorate of the United States, and
  2  3 any nation and its political subdivisions which is a signatory
  2  4 to the North American free trade agreement.
  2  5    The bill also provides that it is a class "D" felony to
  2  6 steal, attempt to steal, redeem or attempt to redeem a stolen
  2  7 lottery ticket.  A class "D" felony is punishable by up to
  2  8 five years imprisonment and, in addition, by a fine of not
  2  9 less than $500 nor more than $7,500.  
  2 10 LSB 4366HC 77
  2 11 tj/jl/8
     

Text: HSB00688                          Text: HSB00690
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