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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 336
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 336, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing 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) Except as provided in item (4.1), the aggregate
12 retail value of all prizes or merchandise awarded in any
13 single day of bingo may not exceed $2,250, except that in
14 adjoining counties having 200,000 to 275,000 inhabitants
15 each, and in counties which are adjacent to either of such
16 adjoining counties and are adjacent to a total of not more
17 than 2 counties in this State, and in any municipality having
18 2,500 or more inhabitants and within one mile of such
19 adjoining and adjacent counties having less than 25,000
20 inhabitants, 2 additional bingo games may be conducted after
21 the $2,250 limit has been reached. The prize awarded for any
22 one game, including any game conducted after reaching the
23 $2,250 limit as authorized in this paragraph (4), may not
24 exceed $500 cash or its equivalent.
25 (4.1) Notwithstanding the provisions of item (4), the
26 Department may issue a special prize license to a licensee if
27 the county in which the licensee conducts bingo approves the
28 special prize license. A special prize licensee shall
29 authorize a license to award prizes or merchandise in a
30 single day of bingo that has an aggregate retail value that
31 exceeds the limits imposed under item (4) but does not exceed
32 $10,000. A special prize license authorized under this item
33 (4.1) shall authorize the licensee to award prizes or
34 merchandise at the higher limit authorized in this item (4.1)
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1 on 2 days per year and shall not permit the licensee to
2 conduct gambling on days other than as authorized in this
3 Act.
4 (5) The number of games may not exceed 25 in any one day
5 including regular and special games, except that this
6 restriction on the number of games shall not apply to bingo
7 conducted at the Illinois State Fair or any county fair held
8 in Illinois.
9 (6) The price paid for a single card under the license
10 may not exceed $1 and such card is valid for all regular
11 games on that day of bingo. A maximum of 5 special games may
12 be held on each bingo day, except that this restriction on
13 the number of special games shall not apply to bingo
14 conducted at the Illinois State Fair or any county fair held
15 in Illinois. The price for a single special game card may not
16 exceed 50 cents.
17 (7) The number of bingo days conducted by a licensee
18 under this Act is limited to one per week, except as follows:
19 (i) Bingo may be conducted in accordance with the
20 terms of a special operator's permit or limited license
21 issued under subdivision (3) of Section 1.
22 (ii) Bingo may be conducted at the Illinois State
23 Fair or any county fair held in Illinois under
24 subdivision (3) of Section 1.
25 (iii) A licensee which cancels a day of bingo
26 because of inclement weather or because the day is a
27 holiday or the eve of a holiday may, after giving notice
28 to the Department, conduct bingo on an additional date
29 which falls on a day of the week other than the day
30 authorized under the license. As used in this
31 subdivision (iii), "holiday" means any of the holidays
32 listed in Section 17 of the Promissory Note and Bank
33 Holiday Act.
34 (8) A licensee may rent a premises on which to conduct
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1 bingo only from an organization which is licensed as a
2 provider of premises or exempt from license requirements
3 under this Act. If the organization providing the premises is
4 a metropolitan exposition, auditorium, and office building
5 authority created by State law, a licensee may enter into a
6 rental agreement with the organization authorizing the
7 licensee and the organization to share the gross proceeds of
8 bingo games; however, the organization shall not receive more
9 than 50% of the gross proceeds.
10 (9) No person under the age of 18 years may play or
11 participate in the conducting of bingo. Any person under the
12 age of 18 years may be within the area where bingo is being
13 played only when accompanied by his parent or guardian.
14 (10) The promoter of bingo games must have a proprietary
15 interest in the game promoted.
16 (11) Raffles or other forms of gambling prohibited by
17 law shall not be conducted on the premises where bingo is
18 being conducted, except that pull tabs and jar games
19 conducted under the Illinois Pull Tabs and Jar Games Act may
20 be conducted on the premises where bingo is being conducted.
21 Prizes awarded in pull tabs and jar games shall not be
22 included in the bingo prize limitation.
23 (12) An organization holding a special operator's permit
24 or a limited license may, as one of the occasions allowed by
25 such permit or license, conduct bingo for a maximum of 2
26 consecutive days, during each day of which the number of
27 games may exceed 25, and regular game cards need not be valid
28 for all regular games. If only noncash prizes are awarded
29 during such occasions, the prize limits stated in paragraph
30 (4) of this Section shall not apply, provided that the retail
31 value of noncash prizes for any single game shall not exceed
32 $150.
33 (Source: P.A. 87-220; 87-1175; 88-53.)".