House File 2107 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY R. OLSON Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act concerning limitations on granting new licenses to conduct 2 gambling games and providing an effective date and retroactive 3 applicability provision. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 6004HH 82 6 ec/nh/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 99F.7, subsection 1, Code Supplement 1 2 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. If the commission is satisfied that this chapter and 1 4 its rules adopted under this chapter applicable to licensees 1 5 have been or will be complied with, the commission shall issue 1 6 a license for a period of not more than three years to an 1 7 applicant to own a gambling game operation, to an applicant to 1 8 operate a gambling structure, and to an applicant to operate 1 9 an excursion gambling boat. If the commission issues any 1 10 additional licenses to conduct gambling games under this 1 11 chapter in addition to the number of licenses issued as of 1 12 January 1, 2008, such license shall only be issued for a 1 13 facility if the applicant facility will be located more than 1 14 sixty miles from a facility to which a license to conduct 1 15 gambling games has been granted under this chapter. The 1 16 commission shall decide which of the gambling games authorized 1 17 under this chapter the commission will permit. The commission 1 18 shall decide the number, location, and type of gambling 1 19 structures and excursion gambling boats licensed under this 1 20 chapter. The commission shall allow the operation of an 1 21 excursion boat or moored barge on or within one thousand feet 1 22 of the high water marks of the rivers, lakes, and reservoirs 1 23 of this state as established by the commission in consultation 1 24 with the United States army corps of engineers, the department 1 25 of natural resources, or other appropriate regulatory agency. 1 26 The license shall set forth, as applicable, the name of the 1 27 licensee, the type of license granted, the location of the 1 28 gambling structure or the place where the excursion gambling 1 29 boats will operate and dock, and the time and number of days 1 30 during the excursion season and the off season when gambling 1 31 may be conducted by the licensee. 1 32 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE == RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This 1 33 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon 1 34 enactment and is retroactively applicable to January 1, 2008, 1 35 and is applicable on and after that date. 2 1 EXPLANATION 2 2 This bill provides that a new license to conduct gambling 2 3 games issued after January 1, 2008, shall only be issued for a 2 4 facility if the applicant facility will be located more than 2 5 60 miles from a facility to which a license to conduct 2 6 gambling games has already been granted. 2 7 LSB 6004HH 82 2 8 ec/nh/14