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Senate Amendment 3331

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 445 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Section 1.  Section 99D.8, unnumbered paragraph 1,
  1  5 Code 1999, 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    #2.  Page 4, by inserting after line 6 the
  1 32 following:
  1 33    "Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  99F.4C  DIVESTITURE.
  1 34    1.  If, on the effective date of this Act, a county
  1 35 owns or has a leasehold interest in any real estate or
  1 36 other property which is used in the operation of slot
  1 37 machines licensed pursuant to this chapter or of a
  1 38 pari-mutuel horse racetrack licensed pursuant to
  1 39 chapter 99D, the county shall divest itself not later
  1 40 than July 1, 2000, of any interest in the real estate
  1 41 or other property which is used in the operation of
  1 42 slot machines or pari-mutuel horse racing.
  1 43    2.  A county which owns or has a leasehold interest
  1 44 in real property as provided in subsection 1 shall
  1 45 divest itself of the real property by sale at a fair
  1 46 market price to a corporation organized pursuant to
  1 47 chapter 490 with the following restrictions and
  1 48 requirements:
  1 49    a.  All shares of the corporation shall be sold to
  1 50 residents of this state.
  2  1    b.  All officers and directors of the corporation
  2  2 shall be residents of this state.
  2  3    c.  The transfer of all shares shall be subject to
  2  4 the approval of the corporation and the transfer shall
  2  5 be to the corporation or to other residents of this
  2  6 state."
  2  7    #3.  Title page, line 3, by inserting after the
  2  8 word "machines," the following:  "providing for the
  2  9 divestiture of gambling facilities held by counties,".  
  2 10 
  2 11 
  2 12                               
  2 13 JACK RIFE 
  2 14 
  2 15 
  2 16                               
  2 17 DERRYL McLAREN 
  2 18 SF 445.10
  2 19 tj/cc/26
     

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