Senate Amendment 3212


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     1  1    Amend House File 810, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 18, by inserting after line 34 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  Section 99F.4A, subsection 8,
     1  6 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2005, is amended to read
     1  7 as follows:
     1  8    The commission shall, upon the immediate payment of
     1  9 the applicable table games license fee and submission
     1 10 to the commission by June 1, 2005 2006, of an
     1 11 application by a licensee of a pari=mutuel dog or
     1 12 horse racetrack licensed to conduct gambling games at
     1 13 a pari=mutuel racetrack enclosure, issue a license to
     1 14 the licensee to conduct table games of chance,
     1 15 including video machines that simulate table games of
     1 16 chance, at the pari=mutuel racetrack enclosure subject
     1 17 to the requirements of this subsection.  However, a
     1 18 table games license may only be issued to a licensee
     1 19 required to pay a table games license fee of three
     1 20 million dollars under this subsection if the licensee,
     1 21 and all other licensees of an excursion gambling boat
     1 22 in that county, file an agreement with the commission
     1 23 authorizing the granting of a table games license
     1 24 under this subsection and permitting all licensees of
     1 25 an excursion gambling boat to operate a moored barge
     1 26 as of a specific date.  The licensee shall be granted
     1 27 a table games license by the commission without
     1 28 conducting a separate referendum authorizing table
     1 29 games upon payment of the applicable license fee to
     1 30 the commission which table games license fee may be
     1 31 offset by the licensee against taxes imposed on the
     1 32 licensee by section 99F.11, to the extent of twenty
     1 33 percent of the table games license fee paid pursuant
     1 34 to this subsection for each of five consecutive fiscal
     1 35 years beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1,
     1 36 2008.  Fees paid pursuant to this subsection are not
     1 37 refundable to the licensee.  A licensee shall not be
     1 38 required to pay a fee to renew a table games license
     1 39 issued pursuant to this subsection.  Moneys collected
     1 40 by the commission from a table games license fee paid
     1 41 under this subsection shall be deposited in the
     1 42 rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund created in section
     1 43 8.57.>
     1 44 #2.  Page 19, line 1, by inserting after the word
     1 45 and figure <chapter 1175,> the following:  <and
     1 46 amending section 99F.4A,>.
     1 47 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2  1 MIKE CONNOLLY
     2  2 HF 810.503 81
     2  3 ec/pj/2894

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