SENATE FILE 427

BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 245)

A BILL FOR

An Act allowing qualified organizations to lease certain electronic bingo equipment in order to assist disabled participants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 99B.7, subsection 8, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   8.
  a.  A qualified organization licensed under this section shall purchase bingo equipment and supplies only from a manufacturer or a distributor licensed by the department.
   b.  A qualified organization may also lease electronic bingo equipment from a manufacturer or distributor licensed by the department for the purposes of aiding disabled individuals during a bingo occasion. “Electronic bingo equipment” for the purposes of this paragraph means an electronic device that aids in the use of a bingo card during a bingo game. Such electronic bingo equipment shall only be permitted for use by disabled individuals.
EXPLANATION
   This bill allows a qualified organization, for the purpose of aiding disabled participants, to lease electronic bingo equipment from a manufacturer or distributor licensed by the department of inspections and appeals in order to aid disabled persons. 
   The bill provides that “electronic bingo equipment”, for the purposes of the bill, means an electronic device that aids in the use of a bingo card during a bingo game. The bill specifies that this equipment shall only be permitted for use by disabled persons.
   A qualified organization is defined as an organization licensed by the department of inspections and appeals which dedicates its net receipts from a game of skill or chance or a raffle to educational, civic, public, charitable, patriotic, or religious uses.