093_HB0146ham003
LRB093 02207 LRD 16839 a
1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 146
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 146, AS AMENDED,
3 with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment
4 No. 1, on page 8, line 7, by deleting "3.11,"; and
5 on page 8, line 8, after "31," by inserting "31.1,"; and
6 on page 9, by deleting lines 1 through 7; and
7 on page 17, by replacing lines 12 through 19 with the
8 following:
9 "(e-3) Upon request, the Board shall award at least 50
10 standardbred racing dates to the organization licensee that
11 conducts pari-mutuel wagering at a race track located in a
12 county with a population in excess of 230,000 inhabitants
13 that borders on the Mississippi River. Any racing dates
14 awarded under this subsection (e-3) that are in excess of the
15 number awarded to that organization licensee in calendar year
16 2003 shall be in addition to those racing dates awarded under
17 subsection (e-2)."; and
18 page 76, below line 13, by inserting the following:
19 "(230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
20 Sec. 31.1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c),
21 organization licensees collectively shall contribute annually
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1 to charity the sum of $750,000 to non-profit organizations
2 that provide medical and family, counseling, and similar
3 services to persons who reside or work on the backstretch of
4 Illinois racetracks. These contributions shall be collected
5 as follows: (i) no later than July 1st of each year the
6 Board shall assess each organization licensee, except those
7 tracks which are not within 100 miles of each other which
8 tracks shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the Board
9 charity fund, that amount which equals $690,000 multiplied by
10 the amount of pari-mutuel wagering handled by the
11 organization licensee in the year preceding assessment and
12 divided by the total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all
13 Illinois organization licensees, except those tracks which
14 are not within 100 miles of each other, in the year preceding
15 assessment; (ii) notice of the assessed contribution shall be
16 mailed to each organization licensee; (iii) within thirty
17 days of its receipt of such notice, each organization
18 licensee shall remit the assessed contribution to the Board.
19 If an organization licensee wilfully fails to so remit the
20 contribution, the Board may revoke its license to conduct
21 horse racing.
22 (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any
23 qualified charitable organization seeking an allotment of
24 contributed funds shall submit to the Board an application
25 for those funds, using the Board's approved form. No later
26 than December 31st of each year, the Board shall distribute
27 all such amounts collected that year to such charitable
28 organization applicants.
29 (c) Upon the commencement of electronic gaming by an
30 electronic gaming licensee, the Board shall not assess any
31 organization licensee at a race track at which electronic
32 gaming has commenced any sum as provided in subsection (a),
33 but the Board shall assess an organization licensee that
34 conducted live racing in the previous year at a race track at
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1 which electronic gaming is not conducted at its previous
2 year's assessment.
3 (Source: P.A. 87-110.)"; and
4 on page 79, lines 13 and 14, by replacing "and powers" with
5 "powers, and obligations"; and
6 on page 79, line 17, by inserting the following after
7 "consolidation":
8 "provided, that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to
9 create in the consolidated organization licensee any rights
10 superior to those of a non-consolidated licensee, except as
11 specifically provided in this Section."; and
12 on page 79, line 20, by inserting the following after
13 "licensees.":
14 "This Section shall apply to any consolidation occurring
15 after January 1, 2002."; and
16 on page 81, line 7, by inserting the following after
17 "track.":
18 "Only one organization licensee per race track may be awarded
19 an electronic gaming license."; and
20 on page 82, by replacing lines 20 through 24 with the
21 following:
22 "The payments required under this subsection (c) shall be
23 paid by electronic gaming licensees, pro rata, based on the
24 total amount wagered at each of those electronic gaming
25 licensees' electronic gaming facilities in the previous month
26 upon the commencement of electronic gaming at each race
27 track. Prior to the commencement of electronic gaming at each
28 race track, the payments required under this subsection (c)
29 shall be paid by electronic gaming licensees, pro rata, based
30 upon the total amount of per position fees authorized to be
31 imposed on all electronic gaming licensees pursuant to
32 subsection (c) of Section 7.4 of the Riverboat Gambling Act
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1 compared to the total amount of per position fees authorized
2 to be imposed on each electronic gaming licensee
3 individually."; and
4 on page 105, line 13 by replacing "Fairmount Race Track and
5 Balmoral Race Track" with the following:
6 "an organization licensee that conducts pari-mutuel wagering
7 at a race track located in a county with a population in
8 excess of 230,000 inhabitants that borders on the Mississippi
9 River and an organization licensee which is not located in a
10 county with a population in excess of 230,000 inhabitants
11 that borders on the Mississippi River and which is not
12 located in Cook County"; and
13 on page 105, lines 14 and 15, by changing "when it receives a
14 finding of preliminary suitability from the Board" to the
15 following:
16 "upon the commencement of electronic gaming by that
17 licensee"; and
18 on page 105, lines 16 and 17, by replacing "Fairmount Race
19 Track and Balmoral Race Track" with the following:
20 "an organization licensee that conducts pari-mutuel wagering
21 at a race track located in a county with a population in
22 excess of 230,000 inhabitants that borders on the Mississippi
23 River and an organization licensee which is not located in a
24 county with a population in excess of 230,000 inhabitants
25 that borders on the Mississippi River and which is not
26 located in Cook County"; and
27 by replacing lines 27 through 34 on page 106 and lines 1
28 through 8 on page 107 with the following:
29 "(1) An organization licensee that had an average
30 daily amount of wagers placed into mutual pools for races
31 conducted at that licensee's racetrack in calendar year
32 2002 of more than $3,000,000 may admit up to 1,150 gaming
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1 participants at a time.
2 (2) An organization licensee that had an average
3 daily amount of wagers placed into mutual pools for races
4 conducted at that licensee's racetrack in calendar year
5 2002 of more than $2,000,000 but no more than $3,000,000
6 may admit up to 1,000 gaming participants at a time.
7 (3) An organization licensee that had an average
8 daily amount of wagers placed into mutual pools for races
9 conducted at that licensee's racetrack in calendar year
10 2002 of $2,000,000 or less may admit up to 850 gaming
11 participants at a time.
12 (4) An organization licensee conducting pari-mutuel
13 wagering at a racetrack located in a county with a
14 population in excess of 230,000 inhabitants that borders
15 on the Mississippi River may admit up to 450 gaming
16 participants at a time.
17 (5) An organization licensee located at a race
18 track outside of Cook County, other than an organization
19 licensee described in paragraph (4), may admit up to 300
20 gaming participants at a time."; and
21 on page 108, by deleting lines 2 through 7; and
22 on page 119, line 6, by replacing "gambling" with "gaming
23 minus an amount equal to the amount of the payments required
24 by subsections (b) and (c) of Section 56 of the Horse Racing
25 Act of 1975 from the total annual adjusted gross receipts
26 received by the electronic gaming licensee".