House File 106HOUSE FILE BY SANDS, TOMENGA, DOLECHECK, JACOBS, MAY, KAUFMANN, CHAMBERS, RAYHONS, WINDSCHITL, and SODERBERG Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act imposing a moratorium on the issuance or relocation of 2 licenses for gambling games and providing an effective date. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1049YH 82 5 ec/sh/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 99F.4D MORATORIUM FOR ISSUANCE 1 2 AND RELOCATION OF LICENSES FOR GAMBLING GAMES. 1 3 1. Commencing on the effective date of this Act, the 1 4 commission shall not issue a license to conduct gambling games 1 5 on an excursion boat pursuant to this chapter. 1 6 2. This section does not affect the validity of a license 1 7 issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter before the 1 8 effective date of this Act, or the authority of the commission 1 9 to suspend, revoke, transfer, or renew a license issued before 1 10 the effective date of this Act, pursuant to chapter 99D or 1 11 this chapter. However, the commission shall not permit a 1 12 licensee to change the location of an excursion boat or 1 13 pari=mutuel racetrack authorized to conduct gambling games 1 14 after the effective date of this Act. 1 15 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 1 16 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 1 17 EXPLANATION 1 18 This bill imposes a moratorium on the issuance of a new 1 19 license to conduct gambling games on an excursion boat 1 20 commencing on the effective date of the bill. In addition, 1 21 the bill prohibits a licensee from moving the location of a 1 22 boat or racetrack after the effective date of the bill. The 1 23 bill takes effect upon enactment. 1 24 LSB 1049YH 82 1 25 ec:nh/sh/8.1