Senate Amendment 3067


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 327 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
     1  3 clause and inserting the following:
     1  4    <Section 1.  Section 99F.11, Code 2003, is amended
     1  5 to read as follows:
     1  6    99F.11  WAGERING TAX == RATE == ALLOCATIONS.
     1  7    1.  a.  A tax is imposed on the adjusted gross
     1  8 receipts received annually from gambling games
     1  9 authorized under this chapter at the rate of five
     1 10 percent on the first one million dollars of adjusted
     1 11 gross receipts, at the rate of ten percent on the next
     1 12 two million dollars of adjusted gross receipts, and at
     1 13 the rate of twenty twenty=two percent on any amount of
     1 14 adjusted gross receipts over three million dollars.
     1 15 However, for the calendar year beginning January 1,
     1 16 2003, the rate of tax on any amount of adjusted gross
     1 17 receipts over three million dollars is twenty percent.
     1 18    b.  However Notwithstanding any provision of
     1 19 paragraph "a" to the contrary, beginning January 1,
     1 20 1997 2003, the rate on any amount of adjusted gross
     1 21 receipts over three million dollars from gambling
     1 22 games at racetrack enclosures is twenty=two twenty=
     1 23 eight percent and shall increase by two percent each
     1 24 succeeding calendar year until the rate is thirty=six
     1 25 percent.
     1 26    2.  The taxes imposed by this section shall be paid
     1 27 by the licensee to the treasurer of state within ten
     1 28 days after the close of the day when the wagers were
     1 29 made and shall be distributed as follows:
     1 30    1. a.  If the gambling excursion originated at a
     1 31 dock located in a city, one=half of one percent of the
     1 32 adjusted gross receipts shall be remitted to the
     1 33 treasurer of the city in which the dock is located and
     1 34 shall be deposited in the general fund of the city.
     1 35 Another one=half of one percent of the adjusted gross
     1 36 receipts shall be remitted to the treasurer of the
     1 37 county in which the dock is located and shall be
     1 38 deposited in the general fund of the county.
     1 39    2. b.  If the gambling excursion originated at a
     1 40 dock located in a part of the county outside a city,
     1 41 one=half of one percent of the adjusted gross receipts
     1 42 shall be remitted to the treasurer of the county in
     1 43 which the dock is located and shall be deposited in
     1 44 the general fund of the county.  Another one=half of
     1 45 one percent of the adjusted gross receipts shall be
     1 46 remitted to the treasurer of the Iowa city nearest to
     1 47 where the dock is located and shall be deposited in
     1 48 the general fund of the city.
     1 49    3. c.  Three=tenths of one percent of the adjusted
     1 50 gross receipts shall be deposited in the gambling
     2  1 treatment fund specified in section 99E.10, subsection
     2  2 1, paragraph "a".
     2  3    4. d.  The remaining amount of the adjusted gross
     2  4 receipts tax shall be credited to the general fund of
     2  5 the state.
     2  6    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE == RETROACTIVE
     2  7 APPLICABILITY.  This Act, being deemed of immediate
     2  8 importance, takes effect upon enactment and is
     2  9 retroactively applicable to January 1, 2003, and is
     2 10 applicable on and after that date.>
     2 11 #2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 6, and
     2 12 inserting the following:  <An Act providing for the
     2 13 tax on the adjusted gross receipts from gambling games
     2 14 on excursion boats and at racetracks and including
     2 15 effective and retroactive applicability provisions.>
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     2 17
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     2 19 JEFF LAMBERTI
     2 20 SF 327.501 80
     2 21 ec/pj

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