House File 360 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 360 BY COWNIE A BILL FOR An Act eliminating the referendum requirement for the licensing 1 of gambling games. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 2228YH (1) 84 aw/sc

H.F. 360 Section 1. Section 99F.4A, subsection 8, paragraph a, Code 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. The commission shall, upon the immediate payment 3 of the applicable table games license fee and submission 4 to the commission by June 1, 2005, of an application by a 5 licensee of a pari-mutuel dog or horse racetrack licensed to 6 conduct gambling games at a pari-mutuel racetrack enclosure, 7 issue a license to the licensee to conduct table games of 8 chance, including video machines that simulate table games 9 of chance, at the pari-mutuel racetrack enclosure subject to 10 the requirements of this subsection . However, a table games 11 license may only be issued to a licensee required to pay a 12 table games license fee of three million dollars under this 13 subsection if the licensee, and all other licensees of an 14 excursion gambling boat in that county, file an agreement 15 with the commission authorizing the granting of a table games 16 license under this subsection and permitting all licensees 17 of an excursion gambling boat to operate a moored barge as 18 of a specific date. The licensee shall be granted a table 19 games license by the commission without conducting a separate 20 referendum authorizing table games upon payment of the 21 applicable license fee to the commission which table games 22 license fee may be offset by the licensee against taxes imposed 23 on the licensee by section 99F.11 , to the extent of twenty 24 percent of the table games license fee paid pursuant to this 25 subsection for each of five consecutive fiscal years beginning 26 with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008. Fees paid 27 pursuant to this subsection are not refundable to the licensee. 28 A licensee shall not be required to pay a fee to renew a table 29 games license issued pursuant to this subsection . Moneys 30 collected by the commission from a table games license fee paid 31 under this subsection shall be deposited in the rebuild Iowa 32 infrastructure fund created in section 8.57 . 33 Sec. 2. Section 99F.7, subsection 11, Code 2011, is amended 34 by striking the subsection. 35 -1- LSB 2228YH (1) 84 aw/sc 1/ 2

H.F. 360 Sec. 3. Section 99F.7, subsection 15, Code 2011, is amended 1 to read as follows: 2 15. If a licensed excursion boat stops at more than one 3 harbor and travels past a county without stopping at any port 4 in that county, the commission shall require the excursion boat 5 operator to develop a schedule for ports of call in which a 6 county referendum has been approved, and the port of call has 7 that have the necessary facilities to handle the boat. The 8 commission may limit the schedule to only one port of call per 9 county. 10 EXPLANATION 11 This bill eliminates the requirement that makes the issuance 12 or denial of a gambling license contingent upon the success 13 or failure of a referendum. The bill also makes additional 14 conforming amendments. 15 -2- LSB 2228YH (1) 84 aw/sc 2/ 2