[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1419 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1419

  To provide an exemption with respect to gambling devices on certain 
                vessels making voyages on Lake Michigan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 5, 1995

Mr. Visclosky introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide an exemption with respect to gambling devices on certain 
                vessels making voyages on Lake Michigan.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for purposes of 
section 5(b)(1)(A) of the Act of January 2, 1951 (15 U.S.C. 
1175(b)(1)(A)), commonly known as the ``Johnson Act'', a vessel on a 
voyage that originates in the territorial jurisdiction of the State of 
Indiana and that does not leave Lake Michigan shall be considered to be 
a vessel that is not within the boundaries of any State or possession 
of the United States.
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