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Senate Amendment 5716

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the House amendment, S-5359, to Senate File
  1  2 2320, as passed by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  By striking page 1, line 2, through page 2,
  1  4 line 34, and inserting the following:
  1  5    "#   .  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  6 clause and inserting the following:
  1  7    "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  99F.5A  MORATORIUM FOR
  1  8 ISSUANCE OF LICENSES FOR EXCURSION GAMBLING BOATS AND
  1  9 ON THE NUMBER AND TYPE OF GAMBLING GAMES.
  1 10    1.  The total number of licenses issued to conduct
  1 11 gambling games on excursion gambling boats pursuant to
  1 12 this chapter shall not exceed ten until July 1, 2003.
  1 13    2.  Notwithstanding subsection 1, the following
  1 14 actions may be taken during the moratorium from July
  1 15 1, 1998, until July 1, 2003, with the approval of the
  1 16 commission:
  1 17    a.  A licensed excursion gambling boat may move to
  1 18 a new location within the same county.
  1 19    b.  A licensed excursion gambling boat or a pari-
  1 20 mutuel racetrack and its facilities may be sold and a
  1 21 new license may be issued for operation in the same
  1 22 county.
  1 23    c.  If a license to conduct gambling games on an
  1 24 excursion gambling boat is surrendered, not renewed,
  1 25 or revoked, a new license may be issued for operation
  1 26 in the same county.
  1 27    3.  During the moratorium from July 1, 1998, until
  1 28 July 1, 2003, the commission shall not authorize any
  1 29 of the following:
  1 30    a.  An increase in the number or type of gambling
  1 31 games or the number of slot machines on an excursion
  1 32 gambling boat.
  1 33    b.  A number of slot machines at a pari-mutuel
  1 34 racetrack which is greater than the number authorized
  1 35 on or before July 1, 1998.
  1 36    c.  A licensee to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at a
  1 37 licensed premises in more than one county.
  1 38    Sec. 2.  Section 99F.7, subsection 1, Code 1997, is
  1 39 amended to read as follows:
  1 40    1.  If the commission is satisfied that this
  1 41 chapter and its rules adopted under this chapter
  1 42 applicable to licensees have been or will be complied
  1 43 with, the commission shall issue a license for a
  1 44 period of not more than three years to an applicant to
  1 45 own a gambling game operation and to an applicant to
  1 46 operate an excursion gambling boat.  The commission
  1 47 shall decide which of the gambling games authorized
  1 48 under this chapter it will permit.  The commission
  1 49 shall decide the number, location, and type of
  1 50 excursion gambling boats licensed under this chapter
  2  1 for operation on the rivers, lakes, and reservoirs of
  2  2 this state.  However, after July 1, 2003, the
  2  3 commission shall issue a new license for an excursion
  2  4 gambling boat operation only if the excursion gambling
  2  5 boat operates on the Mississippi or Missouri river.
  2  6 The license shall set forth the name of the licensee,
  2  7 the type of license granted, the place where the
  2  8 excursion gambling boats will operate and dock, and
  2  9 the time and number of days during the excursion
  2 10 season and the off season when gambling may be
  2 11 conducted by the licensee.  The commission shall not
  2 12 allow a licensee to conduct gambling games on an
  2 13 excursion gambling boat while docked during the off
  2 14 season if the licensee does not operate gambling
  2 15 excursions for a minimum number of days during the
  2 16 excursion season.  The commission may delay the
  2 17 commencement of the excursion season at the request of
  2 18 a licensee."
  2 19    #   .  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 8
  2 20 and inserting the following:  "An Act relating to
  2 21 gambling by imposing a moratorium on the number and
  2 22 types of gambling games and slot machines authorized
  2 23 in this state and on new licenses to conduct gambling
  2 24 on excursion gambling boats, and by limiting the
  2 25 location of new excursion gambling boat operations."" 
  2 26 
  2 27 
  2 28                               
  2 29 JACK RIFE 
  2 30 
  2 31 
  2 32                               
  2 33 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL 
  2 34 SF 2320.310 77
  2 35 tj/cf/28
     

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