House Journal: Page 1436: Monday, April 19, 1999

		The nays were, none.

	Absent or not voting, 3:
Boal	Connors	Hansen
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to 
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
SENATE MESSAGE CONSIDERED
Senate File 445, by committee on state government, a bill for an 
act relating to gambling, by imposing a moratorium on the issuance 
or transfer of certain gambling licenses and on increasing the number 
of games and machines, authorizing the use of video slot machines, 
providing for the transfer of collective bargaining agreements, 
limiting the location of excursion gambling boats and pari-mutuel 
racetracks, prohibiting the dispensing of cash or credit on certain 
gambling premises, imposing a scheduled fine for gambling by 
persons under twenty-one years of age, limiting civil penalties related 
to violations of legal age for gambling, providing for the disposition of 
charitable contributions, nullifying certain administrative rules 
relating to gambling, rescinding the nine-year period of operation for 
certain licenses, providing a tax rate for gambling receipts at 
racetrack enclosures, providing for properly related matters, and 
providing effective dates.
Read first time and referred to committee on ways and means.
IMMEDIATE MESSAGES
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent 
that the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate: 
House Files 711 and 242.
EXPLANATIONS OF VOTE
I was necessarily absent from the House chamber on Wednesday 
morning, March 31, 1999. Had I been present, I would have voted 
"aye" on House File 351, amendments H-1251 and H-1253 to House 
File 745, and House File 745.

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