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House Amendment 8469

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  1  1    Amend the amendment, H-8422, to Senate File 2228,
  1  2 as passed by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  By striking everything after the amending
  1  4 clause and inserting the following:
  1  5    "#   .  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
  1  6 following:
  1  7    "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  99F.11A  ADDITIONAL
  1  8 WAGERING TAX.
  1  9    1.  Beginning January 1, 2003, in addition to the
  1 10 tax imposed in section 99F.11, a tax is imposed on the
  1 11 adjusted gross receipts in excess of three million
  1 12 dollars received annually by an excursion gambling
  1 13 boat at the rate of fourteen percent for the 2003
  1 14 calendar year and at the rate of sixteen percent for
  1 15 the 2004 and subsequent calendar years.  The taxes
  1 16 shall be paid to the treasurer of state within ten
  1 17 days of each gambling day.
  1 18    2.  The amount of the additional adjusted gross
  1 19 receipts tax imposed under subsection 1 shall be
  1 20 deposited into the school district wagering tax fund
  1 21 created in section 293.1.
  1 22    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  293.1  SCHOOL DISTRICT
  1 23 WAGERING TAX FUND.
  1 24    1.  A school district wagering tax fund is created
  1 25 as a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury
  1 26 under the control of the department of education.
  1 27 Moneys in the fund include revenues credited to the
  1 28 fund pursuant to section 99F.11A, subsection 2,
  1 29 appropriations made to the fund, and other moneys
  1 30 deposited into the fund.  The moneys credited in a
  1 31 fiscal year to the fund shall be distributed as
  1 32 provided in subsection 2.
  1 33    2.  a.  Moneys in the school district wagering tax
  1 34 fund shall be distributed to school districts not
  1 35 receiving moneys from a local sales and services tax
  1 36 for school infrastructure purposes under chapter 422E
  1 37 on a per student basis calculated by the director of
  1 38 the department of education by dividing the moneys
  1 39 available during the previous calendar quarter by the
  1 40 combined actual enrollment for all school districts
  1 41 receiving distributions under this subsection.
  1 42    b.  The combined actual enrollment for school
  1 43 districts, for purposes of paragraph "a", shall be
  1 44 calculated by adding together the actual enrollment
  1 45 for each school district receiving distributions under
  1 46 paragraph "a" as determined by the department of
  1 47 management based on the actual enrollment figures
  1 48 reported by October 1 to the department of management
  1 49 by the department of education pursuant to section
  1 50 257.6, subsection 1.
  2  1    3.  A school district receiving moneys from a local
  2  2 sales and services tax for school infrastructure
  2  3 purposes under chapter 422E shall be entitled to
  2  4 receive moneys pursuant to subsection 2 beginning with
  2  5 the first fiscal year following repeal of the local
  2  6 sales and services tax under chapter 422E.
  2  7    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  293.2  USE OF SCHOOL
  2  8 DISTRICT WAGERING TAX FUND MONEYS.
  2  9    1.  a.  Moneys received by a school district from
  2 10 the school district wagering tax fund under section
  2 11 293.1, subsection 2, shall be spent for infrastructure
  2 12 purposes according to an infrastructure plan developed
  2 13 by the board of directors.  The infrastructure plan
  2 14 may apply to more than one fiscal year, but shall be
  2 15 reviewed periodically by the board of directors.
  2 16 Prior to adoption of the plan, the board of directors
  2 17 shall hold a public hearing on the question of
  2 18 approval of the proposed plan.  The board shall set
  2 19 forth its proposal and shall publish the notice of the
  2 20 time and place of a public hearing on the proposed
  2 21 plan.  Notice of the time and place of the public
  2 22 hearing shall be published not less than ten nor more
  2 23 than twenty days before the public hearing in a
  2 24 newspaper which is a newspaper of general circulation
  2 25 in the school district.  At the hearing, or no later
  2 26 than thirty days after the date of the hearing, the
  2 27 board shall take action to adopt the proposed plan.
  2 28    b.  If the board adopts the plan, the board shall
  2 29 direct the county commissioner of elections to submit
  2 30 the question of the approval or disapproval of the
  2 31 infrastructure plan to the registered voters of the
  2 32 school district at the next following regular school
  2 33 election or a special election.  If a majority of
  2 34 those voting on the question favor the plan of the
  2 35 board, the moneys received shall be used according to
  2 36 the plan beginning with the first fiscal year
  2 37 following that election until a change in the plan is
  2 38 approved at a subsequent election by a majority of
  2 39 those voting on the question.  If a majority of those
  2 40 voting on the question at the election does not favor
  2 41 the plan of the board, the district shall use the
  2 42 moneys received as provided in paragraph "c" for the
  2 43 fiscal year.
  2 44    c.  If the infrastructure plan is not approved at
  2 45 an election as provided in paragraph "b", or if a plan
  2 46 is not approved by the board, moneys received by a
  2 47 school district or moneys in excess of those needed
  2 48 for infrastructure purposes according to an approved
  2 49 plan shall be maintained in a separate fund set up by
  2 50 the board and shall only be used for purposes of an
  3  1 approved infrastructure plan.
  3  2    2.  For purposes of this subsection,
  3  3 "infrastructure purposes" means those purposes for
  3  4 which a school district is authorized to contract
  3  5 indebtedness and issue general obligation bonds under
  3  6 chapter 296 or to expend tax revenues under section
  3  7 298.3, the payment of principal and interest on
  3  8 general obligation bonds issued under chapter 296 or
  3  9 section 298.20 or loan agreements under section
  3 10 297.36, payments made pursuant to a real property
  3 11 lease or lease-purchase agreement."
  3 12    #   .  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
  3 13 word "purposes" the following:  "and of school
  3 14 district moneys received from the increase in the
  3 15 wagering tax"." 
  3 16 
  3 17 
  3 18                               
  3 19 FALLON of Polk
  3 20 SF 2228.307 79
  3 21 mg/cf
     

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