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| 1 | AN ACT concerning State government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by adding | ||||||
| 5 | Sections 10.9 and 21.9 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (20 ILCS 1605/10.9 new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 10.9. Specialty retailer license for community senior | ||||||
| 8 | services and resource centers. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) The Division shall establish a special classification | ||||||
| 10 | of retailer license to facilitate the year-round sale of the | ||||||
| 11 | instant scratch-off lottery game established under Section | ||||||
| 12 | 21.9 of this Act. The fees set forth in Section 10.2 of this | ||||||
| 13 | Act do not apply to a specialty retailer license. The holder of | ||||||
| 14 | a specialty retailer license shall: (i) be a community senior | ||||||
| 15 | services and resource center as established under the Community | ||||||
| 16 | Senior Services and Resources Act; (ii) only sell instant | ||||||
| 17 | scratch-off lottery tickets established under Section 21.9 of | ||||||
| 18 | this Act; (iii) be required to purchase those instant | ||||||
| 19 | scratch-off lottery tickets at face value from the Illinois | ||||||
| 20 | Lottery; and (iv) only sell those tickets at face value. | ||||||
| 21 | Specialty retailer licensees may obtain a refund from the | ||||||
| 22 | Division for any unsold instant scratch-off lottery tickets | ||||||
| 23 | that they have purchased for resale, as set forth in the | ||||||
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| 1 | specialty retailer agreement. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) A specialty retailer licensee shall receive a sales | ||||||
| 3 | commission equal to 2% of the face value of specialty game | ||||||
| 4 | tickets purchased from the Department, less adjustments for | ||||||
| 5 | unsold tickets returned to the Illinois Lottery for credit. A | ||||||
| 6 | specialty retailer licensee may not cash winning tickets, but | ||||||
| 7 | are entitled to a 1% bonus in connection with the sale of a | ||||||
| 8 | winning specialty game ticket having a price value of $1,000 or | ||||||
| 9 | more. | ||||||
| 10 | (20 ILCS 1605/21.9 new) | ||||||
| 11 | Sec. 21.9. Scratch-Off for Seniors. | ||||||
| 12 | (a) The Department shall offer a special instant | ||||||
| 13 | scratch-off game for the benefit of Illinois seniors with the | ||||||
| 14 | title of "Scratch-Off for Seniors". The game shall commence on | ||||||
| 15 | July 1, 2011 or as soon thereafter, at the discretion of the | ||||||
| 16 | Director, as is reasonably practical. The operation of the game | ||||||
| 17 | shall be governed by this Act and any rules adopted by the | ||||||
| 18 | Department. If any provision of this Section is inconsistent | ||||||
| 19 | with any other provision of this Act, then this Section | ||||||
| 20 | governs. | ||||||
| 21 | (b) The net revenue from the Scratch-Off for Seniors game | ||||||
| 22 | shall be deposited into the Community Senior Services and | ||||||
| 23 | Resources Fund for appropriation by the General Assembly to the | ||||||
| 24 | Department on Aging for the purpose of making grants to | ||||||
| 25 | community senior services and resource centers as established | ||||||
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| 1 | under the Community Senior Services and Resources Act. | ||||||
| 2 | Moneys collected from the Scratch-Off for Seniors game | ||||||
| 3 | shall be used only as supplemental financial resources and | ||||||
| 4 | shall not supplant existing moneys that the Department on Aging | ||||||
| 5 | may currently expend on community senior services and resource | ||||||
| 6 | centers. | ||||||
| 7 | Moneys received for the purposes of this Section, | ||||||
| 8 | including, without limitation, net revenue from the | ||||||
| 9 | Scratch-Off for Seniors game and from gifts, grants, and awards | ||||||
| 10 | from any public or private entity, must be deposited into the | ||||||
| 11 | Fund. Any interest earned on moneys in the Fund must be | ||||||
| 12 | deposited into the Fund. | ||||||
| 13 | For purposes of this subsection (b), "net revenue" means | ||||||
| 14 | the total amount for which tickets have been sold less the sum | ||||||
| 15 | of the amount paid out in prizes and the actual administrative | ||||||
| 16 | expenses of the Department solely related to the Scratch-Off | ||||||
| 17 | for Seniors game under this Section. | ||||||
| 18 | (c) The Department shall not unreasonably diminish the | ||||||
| 19 | efforts devoted to marketing any other instant scratch-off | ||||||
| 20 | lottery game as a result of selling tickets for the Scratch-Off | ||||||
| 21 | for Seniors game. | ||||||
| 22 | (d) The Department may adopt any rules necessary to | ||||||
| 23 | implement and administer the provisions of this Section.
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| 24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 25 | becoming law. | ||||||