93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4720

 

Introduced 02/04/04, by David R. Leitch

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
230 ILCS 5/28.1

    Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Provides that certain payments made from the General Revenue Fund under the Act shall be made to Lakeview Museum in Peoria at the funding level determined by amounts paid in calendar year 1996 (now 1998). Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT in relation to gambling.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 is amended
5 by changing Section 28.1 as follows:
 
6     (230 ILCS 5/28.1)
7     Sec. 28.1. Payments.
8     (a) Beginning on January 1, 2000, moneys collected by the
9 Department of Revenue and the Racing Board pursuant to Section
10 26 or Section 27 of this Act shall be deposited into the Horse
11 Racing Fund, which is hereby created as a special fund in the
12 State Treasury.
13     (b) Appropriations, as approved by the General Assembly,
14 may be made from the Horse Racing Fund to the Board to pay the
15 salaries of the Board members, secretary, stewards, directors
16 of mutuels, veterinarians, representatives, accountants,
17 clerks, stenographers, inspectors and other employees of the
18 Board, and all expenses of the Board incident to the
19 administration of this Act, including, but not limited to, all
20 expenses and salaries incident to the taking of saliva and
21 urine samples in accordance with the rules and regulations of
22 the Board.
23     (c) Beginning on January 1, 2000, the Board shall transfer
24 the remainder of the funds generated pursuant to Sections 26
25 and 27 from the Horse Racing Fund into the General Revenue
26 Fund.
27     (d) Beginning January 1, 2000, payments to all programs in
28 existence on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1999
29 that are identified in Sections 26(c), 26(f), 26(h)(11)(C), and
30 28, subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of
31 Section 30, and subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g),
32 and (h) of Section 31 shall be made from the General Revenue

 

 

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1 Fund at the funding levels determined by amounts paid under
2 this Act in calendar year 1998. Beginning on the effective date
3 of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, payments
4 to the Lakeview Museum in Peoria shall be made from the General
5 Revenue Fund at the funding level determined by amounts paid to
6 that museum under this Act in calendar year 1996.
7 (Source: P.A. 91-40, eff. 6-25-99.)
 
8     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.