Missouri HB 869: Creates the Steamboat Legacy Fund

Bill Text

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 869
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRIFFITH.
1787H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 313.820, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the
preservation of Missouri history.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 313.820, RSMo, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as sections 313.820 and 313.828, to read as follows:
313.820. 1. An excursion boat licensee shall pay to the commission an admission fee
2 of [two] three dollars for each person embarking on an excursion gambling boat with a ticket
3 of admission. One dollar of such fee shall be deposited to the credit of the gaming commission
4 fund as authorized under section 313.835, one dollar of such fee shall be deposited to the
5 credit of the steamboat legacy fund established under section 313.828, and one dollar of such
6 fee shall not be considered state funds and shall be paid to the home dock city or county. Subject
7 to appropriation, one cent of such fee deposited to the credit of the gaming commission fund may
8 be deposited to the credit of the compulsive gamblers fund created pursuant to the provisions of
9 section 313.842. Nothing in this section shall preclude any licensee from charging any amount
10 deemed necessary for a ticket of admission to any person embarking on an excursion gambling
11 boat. If tickets are issued which are good for more than one excursion, the admission fee shall
12 be paid to the commission for each person using the ticket on each excursion that the ticket is
13 used. If free passes or complimentary admission tickets are issued, the excursion boat licensee
14 shall pay to the commission the same fee upon these passes or complimentary tickets as if they
15 were sold at the regular and usual admission rate; however, the excursion boat licensee may issue
16 fee-free passes to actual and necessary officials and employees of the licensee or other persons
17 actually working on the excursion gambling boat. The issuance of fee-free passes is subject to
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended
to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

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18 the rules of the commission, and a list of all persons to whom the fee-free passes are issued shall
19 be filed with the commission.
20 2. All licensees are subject to all income taxes, sales taxes, earnings taxes, use taxes,
21 property taxes or any other tax or fee now or hereafter lawfully levied by any political
22 subdivision; however, no other license tax, permit tax, occupation tax, excursion fee, or taxes
23 or fees shall be imposed, levied or assessed exclusively upon licensees by a political subdivision.
24 All state taxes not connected directly to gambling games shall be collected by the department of
25 revenue. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 32.057 to the contrary, the department of
26 revenue may furnish and the commission may receive tax information to determine if applicants
27 or licensees are complying with the tax laws of this state; however, any tax information acquired
28 by the commission shall not become public record and shall be used exclusively for commission
29 business.
313.828. 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Steamboat Legacy
2 Fund", which shall consist of a portion of admission fees collected under section 313.820.
3 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining
4 in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue
5 fund. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other
6 funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited
7 to the fund.
8 2. Moneys in the steamboat legacy fund shall be used solely:
9 (1) For the construction, maintenance, and operation of a facility to be located in
10 a home rule city with more than forty-one thousand but fewer than forty-seven thousand
11 inhabitants and partially located in any county of the first classification with more than
12 seventy thousand but fewer than eighty-three thousand inhabitants. Such facility shall
13 house books, maps, artifacts, and other materials related to the significance of the
14 steamboat era in the history of this state; and
15 (2) For the construction, maintenance, and operation of a facility that shall be a
16 part of the Missouri state museum established under section 184.010.
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