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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 213
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 213 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 2 as follows:
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| 6 | (20 ILCS 1605/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 1152)
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| 7 | Sec. 2. This Act is enacted to implement and establish | ||||||
| 8 | within the State
a lottery to be conducted by the State through | ||||||
| 9 | the Department. The entire net proceeds of the Lottery
are to | ||||||
| 10 | be used for the support of the State's Common School Fund,
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| 11 | except as provided in subsection (o) of Section 9.1 and | ||||||
| 12 | Sections 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 21.8, and 21.9. The General Assembly | ||||||
| 13 | finds that it is in the public interest for the Department to | ||||||
| 14 | conduct the functions of the Lottery with the assistance of a | ||||||
| 15 | private manager under a management agreement overseen by the | ||||||
| 16 | Department. The Department shall be accountable to the General | ||||||
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| 1 | Assembly and the people of the State through a comprehensive | ||||||
| 2 | system of regulation, audits, reports, and enduring | ||||||
| 3 | operational oversight. The Department's ongoing conduct of the | ||||||
| 4 | Lottery through a management agreement with a private manager | ||||||
| 5 | shall act to promote and ensure the integrity, security, | ||||||
| 6 | honesty, and fairness of the Lottery's operation and | ||||||
| 7 | administration. It is the intent of the General Assembly that | ||||||
| 8 | the Department shall conduct the Lottery with the assistance of | ||||||
| 9 | a private manager under a management agreement at all times in | ||||||
| 10 | a manner consistent with 18 U.S.C. 1307(a)(1), 1307(b)(1), | ||||||
| 11 | 1953(b)(4).
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| 12 | Beginning with Fiscal Year 2018 and every year thereafter, | ||||||
| 13 | any moneys transferred from the State Lottery Fund to the | ||||||
| 14 | Common School Fund shall be supplemental to, and not in lieu | ||||||
| 15 | of, any other money due to be transferred to the Common School | ||||||
| 16 | Fund by law or appropriation. | ||||||
| 17 | (Source: P.A. 98-649, eff. 6-16-14; 99-933, eff. 1-27-17.)".
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