House File 276 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  QUIRK

                                       (COMPANION TO LSB 1980SS
                                        BY BLACK)


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning the requirement to conduct county gambling
  2    elections.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1980HH 82
  5 ec/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 99F.7, subsection 11, paragraph d, Code
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    d.  If the proposition to operate gambling games on an
  1  4 excursion gambling boat or at a racetrack enclosure is
  1  5 approved by a majority of the county electorate voting on the
  1  6 proposition, the board of supervisors shall submit the same
  1  7 proposition to the county electorate at the general election
  1  8 held in 2002 and, unless the operation of gambling games is
  1  9 terminated earlier as provided in this chapter or chapter 99D,
  1 10 at the general election held at each subsequent eight=year
  1 11 interval.  However, if a proposition to operate gambling games
  1 12 on an excursion gambling boat or at a racetrack enclosure is
  1 13 approved by a majority of the county electorate voting on the
  1 14 proposition in two successive elections, the proposition shall
  1 15 not thereafter be required to be submitted to the county
  1 16 electorate.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill provides that if a proposition to operate
  1 19 gambling games on an excursion boat or racetrack has been
  1 20 approved in two successive elections in a county, the
  1 21 proposition to authorize gambling games is not thereafter
  1 22 required to be submitted to the county electorate.  Current
  1 23 law provides that the proposition to conduct gambling games
  1 24 shall be resubmitted to the county electorate every eight
  1 25 years.
  1 26 LSB 1980HH 82
  1 27 ec:rj/gg/14