Senate Study Bill 3163 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON DANIELSON) A BILL FOR An Act concerning persons voluntarily excluded from gambling 1 facilities and providing an appropriation. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 6071XC (2) 84 ec/nh

S.F. _____ Section 1. Section 99D.7, subsection 23, Code Supplement 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 23. To require licensees to establish a process to allow 3 a person to be voluntarily excluded for life from a racetrack 4 enclosure and all other licensed facilities under this chapter 5 and chapter 99F as provided in this subsection. The process 6 shall provide that an initial request by a person to be 7 voluntarily excluded shall be for a period of five years and 8 a subsequent request following the five-year period shall be 9 for life . The process established shall also require that a 10 licensee disseminate information regarding persons voluntarily 11 excluded to all licensees under this chapter and chapter 99F . 12 The state and any licensee under this chapter or chapter 99F 13 shall not be liable to any person for any claim which may arise 14 from this process. In addition to any other penalty provided 15 by law, any money or thing of value that has been obtained by, 16 or is owed to, a voluntarily excluded person by a licensee as a 17 result of wagers made by the person after the person has been 18 voluntarily excluded shall not be paid to the person but shall 19 be credited to the general fund of the state and transferred to 20 the department of public health for purposes of the gambling 21 treatment program established in section 135.150 . 22 Sec. 2. Section 99F.4, subsection 22, Code 2011, is amended 23 to read as follows: 24 22. To require licensees to establish a process to allow a 25 person to be voluntarily excluded for life from an excursion 26 gambling boat and all other licensed facilities under this 27 chapter and chapter 99D as provided in this subsection. The 28 process shall provide that an initial request by a person to be 29 voluntarily excluded shall be for a period of five years and 30 a subsequent request following the five-year period shall be 31 for life . The process established shall also require that a 32 licensee disseminate information regarding persons voluntarily 33 excluded to all licensees under this chapter and chapter 99D . 34 The state and any licensee under this chapter or chapter 99D 35 -1- LSB 6071XC (2) 84 ec/nh 1/ 2

S.F. _____ shall not be liable to any person for any claim which may arise 1 from this process. In addition to any other penalty provided 2 by law, any money or thing of value that has been obtained by, 3 or is owed to, a voluntarily excluded person by a licensee as a 4 result of wagers made by the person after the person has been 5 voluntarily excluded shall not be paid to the person but shall 6 be credited to the general fund of the state and transferred to 7 the department of public health for purposes of the gambling 8 treatment program established in section 135.150 . 9 EXPLANATION 10 This bill concerns the process by which a person can be 11 voluntarily excluded from a racetrack enclosure under Code 12 chapter 99D and from an excursion gambling boat and all other 13 licensed facilities under Code chapter 99F. 14 The bill provides that an initial request to be voluntarily 15 excluded shall be for a period of five years and a subsequent 16 request by that person after the five-year period shall be for 17 life. Under current law, a request to be voluntarily excluded 18 is for life. 19 The bill also provides that any moneys won by a person 20 voluntarily excluded that are forfeited and credited to the 21 general fund shall be transferred to the department of public 22 health for purposes of the gambling treatment program. 23 -2- LSB 6071XC (2) 84 ec/nh 2/ 2