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| 1 | AN ACT concerning gaming.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | amended by changing Section 31.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
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| 7 | Sec. 31.1.
(a) Unless subsection (a-5) applies, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | organization licensees
collectively shall contribute annually | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | to charity the sum of
$750,000
to non-profit organizations | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | that provide medical and family, counseling,
and similar | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | services to persons who reside or work on the backstretch of
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| 12 | Illinois racetracks.
Unless subsection (a-5) applies, these | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | contributions shall be collected as follows: (i) no later than | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | July
1st of each year the Board shall assess each organization | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | licensee, except
those tracks located in Madison County, which | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | tracks
shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the Board | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | charity fund, that amount
which equals $690,000 multiplied by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | the amount of pari-mutuel wagering
handled by the organization | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | licensee in the year preceding assessment and
divided by the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all Illinois
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| 21 | organization licensees, except those tracks located in Madison | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | and Rock Island counties, in the year preceding assessment; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | (ii) notice of
the assessed contribution shall be mailed to | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | each organization licensee;
(iii) within thirty days of its | ||||||
| 2 | receipt of such notice, each organization
licensee shall remit | ||||||
| 3 | the assessed contribution to the Board. Unless subsection | ||||||
| 4 | (a-5) applies, if an organization licensee commences operation | ||||||
| 5 | of gaming at its facility pursuant to an organization gaming | ||||||
| 6 | license under the Illinois Gambling Act, then the organization | ||||||
| 7 | licensee shall contribute an additional $83,000 per year | ||||||
| 8 | beginning in the year subsequent to the first year in which the | ||||||
| 9 | organization licensee begins receiving funds from gaming | ||||||
| 10 | pursuant to an organization gaming license. If an
organization | ||||||
| 11 | licensee wilfully fails to so remit the contribution, the
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| 12 | Board may revoke its license to conduct horse racing.
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| 13 | (a-5) If (1) an organization licensee that did not operate | ||||||
| 14 | live racing in 2017 is awarded racing dates in 2018 or in any | ||||||
| 15 | subsequent year and (2) all organization licensees are | ||||||
| 16 | operating gaming pursuant to an organization gaming license | ||||||
| 17 | under the Illinois Gambling Act, then subsection (a) does not | ||||||
| 18 | apply and organization licensees collectively shall contribute | ||||||
| 19 | annually to charity the sum of $1,000,000 to community centers | ||||||
| 20 | awarded grants under the Community Health Center Expansion Act | ||||||
| 21 | non-profit organizations that provide medical, dental, | ||||||
| 22 | behavioral health, and family, counseling, and similar | ||||||
| 23 | services to persons who reside or work on the backstretch of | ||||||
| 24 | Illinois racetracks. These contributions shall be collected as | ||||||
| 25 | follows: (i) no later than July 1st of each year the Board | ||||||
| 26 | shall assess each organization licensee an amount based on the | ||||||
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| 1 | proportionate amount of live racing days in the calendar year | ||||||
| 2 | for which the Board has awarded to the organization licensee | ||||||
| 3 | out of the total aggregate number of live racing days awarded; | ||||||
| 4 | (ii) notice of the assessed contribution shall be mailed to | ||||||
| 5 | each organization licensee; (iii) within 30 days after its | ||||||
| 6 | receipt of such notice, each organization licensee shall remit | ||||||
| 7 | the assessed contribution to the Board. If an organization | ||||||
| 8 | licensee willfully fails to so remit the contribution, the | ||||||
| 9 | Board may revoke its license to conduct horse racing. | ||||||
| 10 | (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any
qualified | ||||||
| 11 | charitable organization seeking an allotment of
contributed | ||||||
| 12 | funds shall
submit to the Board an application for those | ||||||
| 13 | funds, using the
Board's approved
form. No later than December | ||||||
| 14 | 31st of each year, the Board shall
distribute all such amounts | ||||||
| 15 | collected that year to such charitable
organization | ||||||
| 16 | applicants.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 101-31, eff. 6-28-19.)
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