SF 2323 (LSB 5071SV (2) 83)

SENATE FILE 2323

BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 2166)

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 to read as follows:
   c.  A person awarded a new license to conduct gambling games on an excursion gambling boat or gambling structure in the same county as another licensed excursion gambling boat or gambling structure shall only be licensed to operate an excursion gambling boat or gambling structure that is located at a similarly situated site and operated as a substantially similar facility as any other excursion gambling boat or gambling structure in the county.  This paragraph “c” shall only apply to counties with a population of one hundred thousand or less.
EXPLANATION
   This bill provides that 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 applies only to counties with a population of 100,000 or less.