House File 66 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY HORBACH
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act providing for a waiver of liquor license fees for veterans
2 organizations.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
4 TLSB 1069YH 83
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 123.36, subsection 2, Code 2009, is
1 2 amended to read as follows:
1 3 2. Class "A" liquor control licenses, the sum of six
1 4 hundred dollars, except that for class "A" licenses in cities
1 5 of less than two thousand population, and for clubs of less
1 6 than two hundred fifty members, the license fee shall be four
1 7 hundred dollars; however, the fee shall be two hundred dollars
1 8 waived for any club which is a post, branch, or chapter of a
1 9 veterans organization chartered by the Congress of the United
1 10 States, if the club does not sell or permit the consumption of
1 11 alcoholic beverages, wine, or beer on the premises more than
1 12 one day in any week or more than a total of fifty=two days in
1 13 a year, and if the application for a license states that the
1 14 club does not and will not sell or permit the consumption of
1 15 alcoholic beverages, wine, or beer on the premises more than
1 16 one day in any week or more than a total of fifty=two days in
1 17 a year.
1 18 EXPLANATION
1 19 This bill waives the class "A" liquor control license fee
1 20 for any club operated by a veterans organization regardless of
1 21 how often the club sells or permits the consumption of
1 22 alcoholic beverages from or on its premises. Current law
1 23 provides that the annual license fee is $200 if the club does
1 24 not sell or permit the consumption of alcoholic beverages more
1 25 than one day in any week or more than 52 days in a year.
1 26 LSB 1069YH 83
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