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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 336
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 336 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Bingo License and Tax Act by
5 changing Section 2."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Bingo License and Tax Act is amended by
9 changing Section 2 as follows:
10 (230 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 1102)
11 Sec. 2. The conducting of bingo is subject to the
12 following restrictions:
13 (1) The entire net proceeds from bingo play must be
14 exclusively devoted to the lawful purposes of the
15 organization permitted to conduct that game.
16 (2) No person except a bona fide member of the
17 sponsoring organization or a bona fide member of an auxiliary
18 organization, substantially all of whose members are spouses
19 of members of the sponsoring organization may participate in
20 the management or operation of the game.
21 (3) No person may receive any remuneration or profit for
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1 participating in the management or operation of the game,
2 except that if an organization licensed under this Act is
3 associated with a school or other educational institution,
4 that school or institution may reduce tuition or fees for a
5 designated pupil based on participation in the management or
6 operation of the game by any member of the organization. The
7 extent to which tuition and fees are reduced shall relate
8 proportionately to the amount of time volunteered by the
9 member, as determined by the school or other educational
10 institution.
11 (4) The total retail value of all prizes or merchandise
12 awarded for a single game of bingo may not exceed $1,000. The
13 aggregate retail value of all prizes or merchandise awarded
14 in any single day of bingo may not exceed $6,000, except that
15 the Department may authorize a licensee to award prizes and
16 merchandise in a single day that has an aggregate retail
17 value that exceeds $6,000 but does not exceed $10,000 on up
18 to 2 days per year. $2,250, except that in adjoining counties
19 having 200,000 to 275,000 inhabitants each, and in counties
20 which are adjacent to either of such adjoining counties and
21 are adjacent to a total of not more than 2 counties in this
22 State, and in any municipality having 2,500 or more
23 inhabitants and within one mile of such adjoining and
24 adjacent counties having less than 25,000 inhabitants, 2
25 additional bingo games may be conducted after the $2,250
26 limit has been reached. The prize awarded for any one game,
27 including any game conducted after reaching the $2,250 limit
28 as authorized in this paragraph (4), may not exceed $500 cash
29 or its equivalent.
30 (5) The number of games may not exceed 25 in any one day
31 including regular and special games, except that this
32 restriction on the number of games shall not apply to bingo
33 conducted at the Illinois State Fair or any county fair held
34 in Illinois.
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1 (6) The price paid for a single card under the license
2 may not exceed $1 and such card is valid for all regular
3 games on that day of bingo. A maximum of 5 special games may
4 be held on each bingo day, except that this restriction on
5 the number of special games shall not apply to bingo
6 conducted at the Illinois State Fair or any county fair held
7 in Illinois. The price for a single special game card may not
8 exceed 50 cents.
9 (7) The number of bingo days conducted by a licensee
10 under this Act is limited to one per week, except as follows:
11 (i) Bingo may be conducted in accordance with the
12 terms of a special operator's permit or limited license
13 issued under subdivision (3) of Section 1.
14 (ii) Bingo may be conducted at the Illinois State
15 Fair or any county fair held in Illinois under
16 subdivision (3) of Section 1.
17 (iii) A licensee which cancels a day of bingo
18 because of inclement weather or because the day is a
19 holiday or the eve of a holiday may, after giving notice
20 to the Department, conduct bingo on an additional date
21 which falls on a day of the week other than the day
22 authorized under the license. As used in this
23 subdivision (iii), "holiday" means any of the holidays
24 listed in Section 17 of the Promissory Note and Bank
25 Holiday Act.
26 (8) A licensee may rent a premises on which to conduct
27 bingo only from an organization which is licensed as a
28 provider of premises or exempt from license requirements
29 under this Act. If the organization providing the premises is
30 a metropolitan exposition, auditorium, and office building
31 authority created by State law, a licensee may enter into a
32 rental agreement with the organization authorizing the
33 licensee and the organization to share the gross proceeds of
34 bingo games; however, the organization shall not receive more
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1 than 50% of the gross proceeds.
2 (9) No person under the age of 18 years may play or
3 participate in the conducting of bingo. Any person under the
4 age of 18 years may be within the area where bingo is being
5 played only when accompanied by his parent or guardian.
6 (10) The promoter of bingo games must have a proprietary
7 interest in the game promoted.
8 (11) Raffles or other forms of gambling prohibited by
9 law shall not be conducted on the premises where bingo is
10 being conducted, except that pull tabs and jar games
11 conducted under the Illinois Pull Tabs and Jar Games Act may
12 be conducted on the premises where bingo is being conducted.
13 Prizes awarded in pull tabs and jar games shall not be
14 included in the bingo prize limitation.
15 (12) An organization holding a special operator's permit
16 or a limited license may, as one of the occasions allowed by
17 such permit or license, conduct bingo for a maximum of 2
18 consecutive days, during each day of which the number of
19 games may exceed 25, and regular game cards need not be valid
20 for all regular games. If only noncash prizes are awarded
21 during such occasions, the prize limits stated in paragraph
22 (4) of this Section shall not apply, provided that the retail
23 value of noncash prizes for any single game shall not exceed
24 $150.
25 (Source: P.A. 87-220; 87-1175; 88-53.)".