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
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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
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