Senate File 94 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY ZAUN, McKINLEY, BOETTGER, HARTSUCH, and HAHN Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act imposing a moratorium on the issuance of licenses for 2 gambling games and providing effective date and retroactive 3 applicability provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 2080XS 83 6 ec/nh/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 99F.4E MORATORIUM FOR ISSUANCE 1 2 OF LICENSES FOR GAMBLING GAMES. 1 3 1. Commencing January 1, 2009, the commission shall not 1 4 issue a license to conduct gambling games on an excursion 1 5 gambling boat, gambling structure, or at a pari=mutuel 1 6 racetrack pursuant to this chapter. 1 7 2. This section does not affect the validity of a license 1 8 issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter before 1 9 January 1, 2009, or the authority of the commission to 1 10 suspend, revoke, transfer, or renew a license issued before 1 11 January 1, 2009, pursuant to chapter 99D or this chapter. 1 12 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE == RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This 1 13 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon 1 14 enactment and is retroactively applicable to January 1, 2009, 1 15 and is applicable on and after that date. 1 16 EXPLANATION 1 17 This bill establishes a moratorium preventing the racing 1 18 and gaming commission from issuing a new license to conduct 1 19 gambling games on an excursion gambling boat, gambling 1 20 structure, or at a pari=mutuel racetrack on and after January 1 21 1, 2009. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is 1 22 retroactively applicable to January 1, 2009. 1 23 LSB 2080XS 83 1 24 ec/nh/5