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| 1 | AN ACT concerning the lottery.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 21.6 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (20 ILCS 1605/21.6)
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| 7 | Sec. 21.6. Scratch-off for Illinois veterans. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) The Department shall offer a special instant | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | scratch-off game for the benefit of Illinois veterans. The game | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | shall commence on January 1, 2006 or as soon thereafter, at the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | discretion of the Superintendent, as is reasonably practical. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | The operation of the game shall be governed by this Act and any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | rules adopted by the Department. If any provision of this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Section is inconsistent with any other provision of this Act, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | then this Section governs. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | (b) The Illinois Veterans Assistance Fund is created as a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | special fund in the State treasury. The net revenue from the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | Illinois veterans scratch-off game shall be deposited into the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Fund for appropriation by the General Assembly solely to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | Department of Veterans' Veterans Affairs for making grants to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | the Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education at the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | University of Illinois and for making grants, funding | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | additional services, or conducting additional research | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | projects relating to each of the following: | ||||||
| 2 | (i) veterans' post traumatic stress disorder; | ||||||
| 3 | (ii) veterans' homelessness; | ||||||
| 4 | (iii) the health insurance costs of veterans; | ||||||
| 5 | (iv) veterans' disability benefits, including but not | ||||||
| 6 | limited to, disability benefits provided by veterans | ||||||
| 7 | service organizations and veterans assistance commissions | ||||||
| 8 | or centers; | ||||||
| 9 | (v) the long-term care of veterans; provided that, | ||||||
| 10 | beginning with moneys appropriated for fiscal year 2008, no | ||||||
| 11 | more than 20% of such moneys shall be used for health | ||||||
| 12 | insurance costs; and | ||||||
| 13 | (vi) veteran employment and employment training. | ||||||
| 14 | In order to expend moneys from this special fund, beginning | ||||||
| 15 | with moneys appropriated for fiscal year 2008, the Director of | ||||||
| 16 | Veterans' Affairs shall appoint a 3-member funding | ||||||
| 17 | authorization committee. The Superintendent shall designate | ||||||
| 18 | one of the members as chairperson. The committee shall meet on | ||||||
| 19 | a quarterly basis, at a minimum, and shall authorize | ||||||
| 20 | expenditure of moneys from the special fund by a two-thirds | ||||||
| 21 | vote. Decisions of the committee shall not take effect unless | ||||||
| 22 | and until approved by the Director of Veterans' Affairs. Each | ||||||
| 23 | member of the committee shall serve until a replacement is | ||||||
| 24 | named by the Director of Veterans' Affairs. One member of the | ||||||
| 25 | committee shall be a member of the Veterans' Advisory Council. | ||||||
| 26 | Moneys collected from the special instant scratch-off game | ||||||
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| 1 | shall be used only as a supplemental financial resource and | ||||||
| 2 | shall not supplant existing moneys that the Department of | ||||||
| 3 | Veterans Affairs may currently expend for the purposes set | ||||||
| 4 | forth in items (i) through (v).
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| 5 | Moneys received for the purposes of this Section, | ||||||
| 6 | including, without limitation, net revenue from the special | ||||||
| 7 | instant scratch-off game and from gifts, grants, and awards | ||||||
| 8 | from any public or private entity, must be deposited into the | ||||||
| 9 | Fund. Any interest earned on moneys in the Fund must be | ||||||
| 10 | deposited into the Fund.
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| 11 | For purposes of this subsection, "net revenue" means the | ||||||
| 12 | total amount for which tickets have been sold less the sum of | ||||||
| 13 | the amount paid out in the prizes and the actual administrative | ||||||
| 14 | expenses of the Department solely related to the scratch-off | ||||||
| 15 | game under this Section.
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| 16 | (c) During the time that tickets are sold for the Illinois | ||||||
| 17 | veterans scratch-off game, the Department shall not | ||||||
| 18 | unreasonably diminish the efforts devoted to marketing any | ||||||
| 19 | other instant scratch-off lottery game. | ||||||
| 20 | (d) The Department may adopt any rules necessary to | ||||||
| 21 | implement and administer the provisions of this Section.
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| 22 | (Source: P.A. 97-464, eff. 10-15-11; 97-740, eff. 7-5-12.)
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| 23 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 24 | becoming law.
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