95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2075

 

Introduced 2/14/2008, by Sen. Linda Holmes

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 1605/21.4 new

    Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that a special purpose lottery game may be offered for sale for no more than 9 consecutive months and there may not be more than 2 special purpose lottery scratchoff games offered for sale at any one time. Provides for a waiting list for subsequently authorized and expired games. Provides that "special purpose lottery game" means any game for which any portion of the proceeds are used for a purpose other than the support of the State's Common School Fund. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by adding
5 Section 21.4 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 1605/21.4 new)
7     Sec. 21.4. Limitation on number of special purpose lottery
8 games. Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the
9 contrary, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory
10 Act of the 95th General Assembly, a special purpose lottery
11 game may be offered for sale for no more than 9 consecutive
12 months and there may not be more than 2 special purpose lottery
13 scratchoff games offered for sale at any one time. If any
14 special ticket is authorized while there are 2 other special
15 tickets being offered for sale, then the third and any
16 subsequent special ticket shall be placed on a waiting list in
17 the same order as the order in which they are authorized. At
18 the expiration of the 9-month sales period of any special
19 purpose lottery game, that game shall be placed at the end of
20 the waiting list and the game on the top of the waiting list,
21 if otherwise eligible, shall be offered for sale. When a game
22 on the waiting list is offered for sale, it shall be removed
23 from the waiting list. For the purpose of this Section, the

 

 

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1 term "special purpose lottery game" means any game for which
2 any portion of the proceeds are used for a purpose other than
3 the support of the State's Common School Fund.
 
4     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5 becoming law.