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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House Joint Resolution 2006 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by striking line 1 and inserting the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Section 1. The following amendment to the 1 5 Constitution of the State of Iowa is proposed: 1 6 Article VII of the Constitution of the State of". 1 7 #2. Page 1, by inserting after line 24, the 1 8 following: 1 9 "Sec. 2. The following amendment to the 1 10 Constitution of the State of Iowa is proposed: 1 11 Section 5 of Article VII of the Constitution of the 1 12 State of Iowa is repealed and the following adopted in 1 13 lieu thereof: 1 14 CONTRACTING DEBT SUBMISSION TO THE PEOPLE. SEC. 1 15 5. Except the debts herein before specified in this 1 16 article, no debt shall be hereafter contracted by, or 1 17 on behalf of this State, unless such debt shall be 1 18 authorized by some law for some single work or object, 1 19 to be distinctly specified therein; and such law shall 1 20 impose and provide for the collection of a direct 1 21 annual tax or for collection of a tax on gambling 1 22 activity or for diversion of proceeds from a tax on 1 23 gambling activity which tax is already authorized by 1 24 law, sufficient to pay the interest on such debt, as 1 25 it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the 1 26 principal of such debt, within twenty years from the 1 27 time of the contracting thereof; but no such law shall 1 28 take effect until at a general election it shall have 1 29 been submitted to the people, and have received a 1 30 majority of all the votes cast for and against it at 1 31 such election; and all money raised by authority of 1 32 such law, shall be applied only to the specific object 1 33 therein stated, or to the payment of the debt created 1 34 thereby; and such law shall be published in at least 1 35 one newspaper in each County, if one is published 1 36 therein, throughout the State, for three months 1 37 preceding the election at which it is submitted to the 1 38 people." 1 39 #3. Page 1, by striking line 25, and inserting the 1 40 following: 1 41 "Sec. 3. The foregoing proposed amendments to 1 42 the". 1 43 #4. Page 1, line 26, by striking the word "is" and 1 44 inserting the following: "are". 1 45 #5. Title page, line 1, by striking the words "an 1 46 amendment" and inserting the following: "amendments". 1 47 #6. Title page, line 4, by inserting after the 1 48 words "use tax" the following: "and relating to the 1 49 state contracting debt". 1 50 #7. By renumbering as necessary. 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk 2 5 HJR 2006.702 78 2 6 sc/cls
Text: H08764 Text: H08766 Text: H08700 - H08799 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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