Sen. John J. Cullerton

Filed: 3/1/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 442

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 442, on page 8, by
3 replacing lines 13 through 15 with the following:
4             "(A) Efforts to increase the total handle on
5         Illinois races.
6             (B) Efforts to increase purses earned from
7         pari-mutuel wagering."; and
 
8 on page 11, by replacing lines 16 through 18 with the
9 following:
10 "Section 27 of this Act. The admission fee shall be $0.15. If
11 tickets are issued"; and
 
12 on page 14, line 26, after the period, by inserting "The Board
13 shall adopt rules concerning the criteria for approval required
14 under this subsection (f)."; and
 
15 on page 40, by replacing lines 4 through 35 with the following:
 
16     "(230 ILCS 5/31.1)  (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
17     Sec. 31.1. (a) Organization licensees collectively shall
18 contribute annually to charity the sum of $750,000 to
19 non-profit organizations that provide medical and family,
20 counseling, and similar services to persons who reside or work
21 on the backstretch of Illinois racetracks. These contributions
22 shall be collected as follows: (i) no later than July 1st of

 

 

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1 each year the Board shall assess each organization licensee,
2 except those tracks which are not within 100 miles of each
3 other which tracks shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the
4 Board charity fund, that amount which equals $720,000 $690,000
5 multiplied by the amount of pari-mutuel wagering handled by the
6 organization licensee in the year preceding assessment and
7 divided by the total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all
8 Illinois organization licensees, except those tracks which are
9 not within 100 miles of each other, in the year preceding
10 assessment; (ii) notice of the assessed contribution shall be
11 mailed to each organization licensee; (iii) within thirty days
12 of its receipt of such notice, each organization licensee shall
13 remit the assessed contribution to the Board. If an
14 organization licensee wilfully fails to so remit the
15 contribution, the Board may revoke its license to conduct horse
16 racing.
17     (a-5) In addition to any amount specified under subsection
18 (a), each race track that conducts live racing shall contribute
19 $81,250 annually to the Board's charity fund, except that those
20 race tracks that are not within 100 miles of any other race
21 track shall pay $25,000 annually. In addition, all organization
22 licensees shall pay $50,000 collectively each year from the
23 purse accounts for thoroughbred racing to the Board's charity
24 fund on a pro rata basis, based on the total number of
25 thoroughbred racing days awarded by the Board in the current
26 year, and all organization licensees shall pay $50,000
27 collectively each year from the purse accounts for standardbred
28 racing to the Board's charity fund on a pro rata basis, based
29 on the total number of standardbred racing days awarded by the
30 Board in the current year.
31     (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any qualified
32 charitable organization seeking an allotment of contributed
33 funds shall submit to the Board an application for those funds,
34 using the Board's approved form. No later than December 31st of

 

 

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1 each year, the Board shall distribute all such amounts
2 collected that year to such charitable organization
3 applicants.
4 (Source: P.A. 87-110.)".