House Journal: Page 1671: Monday, April 26, 1999

12   department shall not exceed twenty-five thirty-five

13   percent of net receipts.
14     Sec. ___.  Section 99B.7, subsection 3, paragraph
15   b, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
16     b.  A person or the agent of a person submitting
17   application to conduct games pursuant to this section
18   as a qualified organization shall certify that the
19   receipts of all games, less reasonable expenses,
20   charges, fees, taxes, and deductions allowed by this
21   chapter, either will be distributed as prizes to
22   participants or will be dedicated and distributed to
23   educational, civic, public, charitable, patriotic or
24   religious uses in this state and that the amount
25   dedicated and distributed will equal at least seventy-
26   five sixty-five percent of the net receipts.
27   "Educational, civic, public, charitable, patriotic, or
28   religious uses" means uses benefiting a society for
29   the prevention of cruelty to animals or animal rescue
30   league, or uses benefiting an indefinite number of
31   persons either by bringing them under the influence of
32   education or religion or relieving them from disease,
33   suffering, or constraint, or by erecting or
34   maintaining public buildings or works, or otherwise
35   lessening the burden of government, or uses benefiting
36   any bona fide nationally chartered fraternal or
37   military veterans' corporation or organization which
38   operates in Iowa a clubroom, post, dining room, or
39   dance hall, but does not include the erection,
40   acquisition, improvement, maintenance, or repair of
41   real, personal or mixed property unless it is used for
42   one or more of the uses stated.  "Public uses"
43   specifically includes dedication of net receipts to
44   political parties as defined in section 43.2.
45   "Charitable uses" includes uses benefiting a definite
46   number of persons who are the victims of loss of home
47   or household possessions through explosion, fire,
48   flood, or storm when the loss is uncompensated by
49   insurance, and uses benefiting a definite number of
50   persons suffering from a seriously disabling disease
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 1   or injury, causing severe loss of income or incurring
 2   extraordinary medical expense when the loss is
 3   uncompensated by insurance.
 4     Proceeds given to another charitable organization
 5   to satisfy the seventy-five sixty-five percent
 6   dedication requirement shall not be used by the donee
 7   to pay any expenses in connection with the conducting
 8   of bingo by the donor organization, or for any cause,
 9   deed, or activity that would not constitute a valid
10   dedication under this section.

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