HB4813 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 18587 AMC 53930 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4813

Introduced 1/18/2006, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

230 ILCS 10/13.2 new
30 ILCS 105/5.663 new
30 ILCS 105/8h

Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Requires a riverboat with a home dock located within the City of Joliet to pay to the Illinois Gaming Board $1,500,000 on July 1, 2006 or within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act, whichever is later. Provides that the payments shall be deposited into the Joliet Civic Center Improvement Fund and shall be used for repairs and improvements to the Joliet Civic Center. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Joliet Civic Center Improvement Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Exempts the Fund from the Act's administrative chargeback provisions. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning gaming.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Riverboat Gambling Act is amended by adding Section 13.2 as follows:

(230 ILCS 10/13.2 new)

Sec. 13.2. Joliet Civic Center Improvement Fund. In addition to any other monies required to be paid under this Act, a riverboat with a home dock located within the City of Joliet shall pay to the Illinois Gaming Board $1,500,000 on July 1, 2006 or within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, whichever is later. The payments required under this Section shall be deposited into the Joliet Civic Center Improvement Fund, a special fund created in the State treasury. Subject to appropriation to the governing board of the Joliet Civic Center, moneys in the Joliet Civic Center Improvement Fund shall be used for repairs and improvements to the Joliet Civic Center.

Section 10. The State Finance Act is amended by adding Section 5.663 and by amending Section 8h as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.663 new)

Sec. 5.663. The Joliet Civic Center Improvement Fund.

(30 ILCS 105/8h)

Sec. 8h. Transfers to General Revenue Fund.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), notwithstanding any other State law to the contrary, the Governor may, through June 30, 2007, from time to time direct the State Treasurer and Comptroller to transfer a specified sum from any fund held by the State Treasurer to the General Revenue Fund in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year. The total transfer under this Section from any fund in any fiscal year shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 8% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) an amount that leaves a remaining fund balance of 25% of the July 1 fund balance of that fiscal year. In fiscal year 2005 only, prior to calculating the July 1, 2004 final balances, the Governor may calculate and direct the State Treasurer with the Comptroller to transfer additional amounts determined by applying the formula authorized in Public Act 93-839 to the funds balances on July 1, 2003. No transfer may be made from a fund under this Section that would have the effect of reducing the available balance in the fund to an amount less than the amount remaining unexpended and unreserved from the total appropriation from that fund estimated to be expended for that fiscal year. This Section does not apply to any funds that are restricted by federal law to a specific use, to any funds in the Motor Fuel Tax Fund, the Intercity Passenger Rail Fund, the Hospital Provider Fund, the Medicaid Provider Relief Fund, the Teacher Health Insurance Security Fund, the Reviewing Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Fund, or the Voters' Guide Fund, the Foreign Language Interpreter Fund, the Lawyers' Assistance Program Fund, the Supreme Court Federal Projects Fund, the Supreme Court Special State Projects Fund, or the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development and Operation Fund, or the Hospital Basic Services Preservation Fund, or to any funds to which subsection (f) of Section 20-40 of the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act applies. No transfers may be made under this Section from the Pet Population Control Fund. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, for fiscal year 2004, the total transfer under this Section from the Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund shall not exceed the lesser of (i) 5% of the revenues to be deposited into the fund during that fiscal year or (ii) 25% of the beginning balance in the fund. For fiscal year 2005 through fiscal year 2007, no amounts may be transferred under this Section from the Road Fund, the State Construction Account Fund, the Criminal Justice Information Systems Trust Fund, the Wireless Service Emergency Fund, or the Mandatory Arbitration Fund.

In determining the available balance in a fund, the Governor may include receipts, transfers into the fund, and other resources anticipated to be available in the fund in that fiscal year.

The State Treasurer and Comptroller shall transfer the amounts designated under this Section as soon as may be practicable after receiving the direction to transfer from the Governor.

(b) This Section does not apply to: (i) the Ticket For The Cure Fund; (ii) or to any fund established under the Community Senior Services and Resources Act; or (iii) (ii) on or after January 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-511) this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Child Labor and Day and Temporary Labor Enforcement Fund.

(c) This Section does not apply to the Demutualization Trust Fund established under the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.

(d) This Section does not apply to the Joliet Civic Center Fund established under the Riverboat Gambling Act.

(Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 6-20-03; 93-659, eff. 2-3-04; 93-674, eff. 6-10-04; 93-714, eff. 7-12-04; 93-801, eff. 7-22-04; 93-839, eff. 7-30-04; 93-1054, eff. 11-18-04; 93-1067, eff. 1-15-05; 94-91, eff. 7-1-05; 94-120, eff. 7-6-05; 94-511, eff. 1-1-06; 94-535, eff. 8-10-05; 94-639, eff. 8-22-05; 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-648, eff. 1-1-06; 94-686, eff. 11-2-05; 94-691, eff. 11-2-05; revised 11-15-05.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.