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Senate Amendment 5071

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 2026 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  3 clause and inserting the following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 99D.8, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  1  5 Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1  6    A qualifying organization, as defined in section
  1  7 513(d)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code, as defined
  1  8 in section 422.3, exempt from federal income taxation
  1  9 under sections 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), or 501(c)(5) of
  1 10 the Internal Revenue Code or a nonprofit corporation
  1 11 organized under the laws of this state, whether or not
  1 12 it is exempt from federal income taxation, which is
  1 13 organized to promote those purposes enumerated in
  1 14 section 99B.7, subsection 3, paragraph "b", or which
  1 15 regularly conducts an agricultural and educational
  1 16 fair or exposition for the promotion of the horse,
  1 17 dog, or other livestock breeding industries of the
  1 18 state, or an agency, instrumentality, or political
  1 19 subdivision of the state, may apply to the commission
  1 20 for a license to conduct horse or dog racing.  The
  1 21 application shall be filed with the administrator of
  1 22 the commission at least sixty days before the first
  1 23 day of the horse race or dog race meeting which the
  1 24 organization proposes to conduct, shall specify the
  1 25 day or days when and the exact location where it
  1 26 proposes to conduct racing, and shall be in a form and
  1 27 contain information as the commission prescribes.  A
  1 28 county shall not own or lease a pari-mutuel horse
  1 29 racetrack and shall not own or lease any facility in
  1 30 which slot machines are licensed to operate.
  1 31    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  99F.4C  DIVESTITURE.
  1 32    1.  If, on the effective date of this Act, a county
  1 33 owns or has a leasehold interest in any real estate or
  1 34 other property which is used in the operation of slot
  1 35 machines licensed pursuant to this chapter or of a
  1 36 pari-mutuel horse racetrack licensed pursuant to
  1 37 chapter 99D, the county shall divest itself not later
  1 38 than July 1, 1999, of any interest in the real estate
  1 39 or other property which is used in the operation of
  1 40 slot machines or pari-mutuel horse racing.
  1 41    2.  A county which owns or has a leasehold interest
  1 42 in real property as provided in subsection 1 shall
  1 43 divest itself of the real property by sale at a fair
  1 44 market price to a corporation organized pursuant to
  1 45 chapter 490 with the following restrictions and
  1 46 requirements:
  1 47    a.  All shares of the corporation shall be sold to
  1 48 residents of this state.
  1 49    b.  All officers and directors of the corporation
  1 50 shall be residents of this state.
  2  1    c.  The transfer of all shares shall be subject to
  2  2 the approval of the corporation and the transfer shall
  2  3 be to the corporation or to other residents of this
  2  4 state."
  2  5    #2.  Title page, lines 2 and 3 by striking the
  2  6 words "political subdivisions of the state" and
  2  7 inserting the following:  "a county".  
  2  8 
  2  9 
  2 10                               
  2 11 COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
  2 12 SHELDON RITTMER, Chairperson
  2 13 SF 2026.303 77
  2 14 tj/cf/28
     

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