HF 2007 (LSB 5071YH (4) 83)

HOUSE FILE 2007

BY  LYKAM, WINCKLER, GAYMAN, and THEDE

A BILL FOR

An Act concerning requirements for granting a new license to conduct gambling games on a gambling boat or structure in a county with an existing gambling boat or structure.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 99F.7, subsection 2, paragraph c, Code 2009, is amended by striking the paragraph.
EXPLANATION
   This bill eliminates the requirement that a person may only be awarded a new license to conduct gambling games on an excursion gambling boat or gambling structure in the same county as another licensed gambling boat or structure if the new licensee is located at a similarly situated site and operated as a substantially similar facility as any other existing licensed gambling boat or structure in the county.