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Sen. John J. Cullerton
Filed: 3/1/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 442
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 442, on page 8, by |
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| replacing lines 13 through 15 with the following: |
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| "(A) Efforts to increase the total handle on |
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| Illinois races. |
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| (B) Efforts to increase purses earned from |
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| pari-mutuel wagering."; and
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| on page 11, by replacing lines 16 through 18 with the |
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| following: |
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| "Section 27 of this Act. The admission fee shall be $0.15. If |
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| tickets are issued"; and
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| on page 14, line 26, after the period, by inserting "The Board |
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| shall adopt rules concerning the criteria for approval required |
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| under this subsection (f)."; and
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| on page 40, by replacing lines 4 through 35 with the following:
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| "(230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
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| Sec. 31.1. (a) Organization licensees
collectively shall |
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| contribute annually to charity the sum of
$750,000
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| non-profit organizations that provide medical and family, |
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| counseling,
and similar services to persons who reside or work |
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| on the backstretch of
Illinois racetracks.
These contributions |
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| shall be collected as follows: (i) no later than July
1st of |
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| each year the Board shall assess each organization licensee, |
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| except
those tracks which are not within 100 miles of each |
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| other which tracks
shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the |
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| Board charity fund, that amount
which equals $720,000
$690,000
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| multiplied by the amount of pari-mutuel wagering
handled by the |
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| organization licensee in the year preceding assessment and
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| divided by the total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all |
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| Illinois
organization licensees, except those tracks which are |
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| not within 100 miles of
each other, in the year preceding |
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| assessment; (ii) notice of
the assessed contribution shall be |
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| mailed to each organization licensee;
(iii) within thirty days |
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| of its receipt of such notice, each organization
licensee shall |
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| remit the assessed contribution to the Board. If an
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| organization licensee wilfully fails to so remit the |
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| contribution, the
Board may revoke its license to conduct horse |
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| racing.
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| (a-5) In addition to any amount specified under subsection |
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| (a), each race track that conducts live racing shall contribute |
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| $81,250 annually to the Board's charity fund, except that those |
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| race tracks that are not within 100 miles of any other race |
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| track shall pay $25,000 annually. In addition, all organization |
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| licensees shall pay $50,000 collectively each year from the |
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| purse accounts for thoroughbred racing to the Board's charity |
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| fund on a pro rata basis, based on the total number of |
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| thoroughbred racing days awarded by the Board in the current |
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| year, and all organization licensees shall pay $50,000 |
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| collectively each year from the purse accounts for standardbred |
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| racing to the Board's charity fund on a pro rata basis, based |
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| on the total number of standardbred racing days awarded by the |
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| Board in the current year.
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| (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any
qualified |
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| charitable organization seeking an allotment of
contributed |
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| funds shall
submit to the Board an application for those funds, |
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| using the
Board's approved
form. No later than December 31st of |