Iowa-2015-HF2350-Introduced
House File 2350 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON STATE
GOVERNMENT
(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 585)
A BILL FOR
1 An Act concerning gambling game licensure requirements and
2 fees, and including applicability provisions.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. Section 99F.5, subsection 1, Code 2016, is
1 2 amended to read as follows:
1 3 1. A qualified sponsoring organization may apply to the
1 4 commission for a license to conduct gambling games on an
1 5 excursion gambling boat or gambling structure as provided in
1 6 this chapter. A person may apply to the commission for a
1 7 license to operate an excursion gambling boat. An operating
1 8 agreement entered into on or after May 6, 2004, between
1 9 a qualified sponsoring organization and an operator of an
1 10 excursion gambling boat or gambling structure shall provide for
1 11 a minimum distribution by the qualified sponsoring organization
1 12 for educational, civic, public, charitable, patriotic, or
1 13 religious uses as defined in section 99B.1, that averages at
1 14 least three percent of the adjusted gross receipts for each
1 15 license year. If an operating agreement has been entered into
1 16 between a qualified sponsoring organization and an operator of
1 17 an excursion gambling boat or gambling structure, the person
1 18 licensed to operate the excursion gambling boat or gambling
1 19 structure pursuant to that agreement shall be noted and
1 20 included as a part of the initial or renewed license issued to
1 21 the qualified sponsoring organization. The application shall
1 22 be filed with the administrator of the commission at least
1 23 ninety days before the first day of the next excursion season
1 24 as determined by the commission, shall identify the excursion
1 25 gambling boat upon which gambling games will be authorized,
1 26 shall specify the exact location where the excursion gambling
1 27 boat will be docked, and shall be in a form and contain
1 28 information as the commission prescribes. The minimum capacity
1 29 of an excursion gambling boat or gambling structure is two
1 30 hundred fifty persons.
1 31 Sec. 2. Section 99F.10, subsection 7, Code 2016, is amended
1 32 to read as follows:
1 33 7. In addition to any other fees required by this chapter,
1 34 a person awarded a new license to conduct gambling games
1 35 pursuant to section 99F.7 on or after January 1, 2004, shall
2 1 pay the applicable initial license fee to the commission as
2 2 provided by this subsection. A person awarded a new license
2 3 shall pay one=fifth of the applicable initial license fee
2 4 immediately upon the granting of the license, one=fifth of
2 5 the applicable initial license fee within one year of the
2 6 granting of the license, one=fifth of the applicable initial
2 7 license fee within two years of the granting of the license,
2 8 one=fifth of the applicable initial license fee within three
2 9 years of the granting of the license, and the remaining
2 10 one=fifth of the applicable initial license fee within four
2 11 years of the granting of the license. However, the license
2 12 fee provided for in this subsection shall not only apply when
2 13 a licensed facility is sold and a new license is issued to the
2 14 purchaser a person for a facility that increases the number of
2 15 licensed facilities in the county. Fees paid pursuant to this
2 16 subsection are not refundable to the licensee. For purposes of
2 17 this subsection, the applicable initial license fee shall be
2 18 five million dollars if the population of the county where the
2 19 licensee shall conduct gambling games is fifteen thousand or
2 20 less based upon the most recent federal decennial census, shall
2 21 be ten million dollars if the population of the county where
2 22 the licensee shall conduct gambling games is more than fifteen
2 23 thousand and less than one hundred thousand based upon the most
2 24 recent federal decennial census, and shall be twenty million
2 25 dollars if the population of the county where the licensee
2 26 shall conduct gambling games is one hundred thousand or more
2 27 based upon the most recent federal decennial census. Moneys
2 28 collected by the commission from an initial license fee paid
2 29 under this subsection shall be deposited in the rebuild Iowa
2 30 infrastructure fund created in section 8.57.
2 31 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to initial or
2 32 renewed licenses issued to a qualified sponsoring organization
2 33 on or after the effective date of this Act.
2 34 EXPLANATION
2 35 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
3 1 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
3 2 Code section 99F.5, concerning gambling game licensing, is
3 3 amended to provide that if an operating agreement has been
3 4 entered into between a qualified sponsoring organization and an
3 5 operator of an excursion gambling boat or gambling structure,
3 6 the person licensed to operate the boat or structure shall be
3 7 noted and included as a part of the initial or renewed license
3 8 issued to the qualified sponsoring organization.
3 9 Code section 99F.10, concerning license fees, is amended to
3 10 provide that the initial license fee shall be paid only when a
3 11 new license is issued to a person for a facility that increases
3 12 the number of licensed facilities in the county.
3 13 This bill applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after
3 14 the effective date of the bill.
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