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
  5 ec/rj/14

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
  1 27 ec/rj/14.1