Full Text of SB2330 102nd General Assembly
SB2330 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB2330 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Celina Villanueva SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 230 ILCS 5/31.1 | from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1 |
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Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. In provisions requiring an organization licensee to contribute to charity, provides that the contributions shall be made to community centers awarded grants under the Community Health Center Expansion Act (rather than non-profit organizations) that provide certain services to persons who reside or work on the backstretch of Illinois racetracks. Adds dental and behavioral health services to the services required to be provided.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning gaming.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 31.1 as follows:
| 6 | | (230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
| 7 | | Sec. 31.1.
(a) Unless subsection (a-5) applies, | 8 | | organization licensees
collectively shall contribute annually | 9 | | to charity the sum of
$750,000
to non-profit organizations | 10 | | that provide medical and family, counseling,
and similar | 11 | | services to persons who reside or work on the backstretch of
| 12 | | Illinois racetracks.
Unless subsection (a-5) applies, these | 13 | | contributions shall be collected as follows: (i) no later than | 14 | | July
1st of each year the Board shall assess each organization | 15 | | licensee, except
those tracks located in Madison County, which | 16 | | tracks
shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the Board | 17 | | charity fund, that amount
which equals $690,000 multiplied by | 18 | | the amount of pari-mutuel wagering
handled by the organization | 19 | | licensee in the year preceding assessment and
divided by the | 20 | | total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all Illinois
| 21 | | organization licensees, except those tracks located in Madison | 22 | | and Rock Island counties, in the year preceding assessment; | 23 | | (ii) notice of
the assessed contribution shall be mailed to |
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| 1 | | each organization licensee;
(iii) within thirty days of its | 2 | | receipt of such notice, each organization
licensee shall remit | 3 | | the assessed contribution to the Board. Unless subsection | 4 | | (a-5) applies, if an organization licensee commences operation | 5 | | of gaming at its facility pursuant to an organization gaming | 6 | | license under the Illinois Gambling Act, then the organization | 7 | | licensee shall contribute an additional $83,000 per year | 8 | | beginning in the year subsequent to the first year in which the | 9 | | organization licensee begins receiving funds from gaming | 10 | | pursuant to an organization gaming license. If an
organization | 11 | | licensee wilfully fails to so remit the contribution, the
| 12 | | Board may revoke its license to conduct horse racing.
| 13 | | (a-5) If (1) an organization licensee that did not operate | 14 | | live racing in 2017 is awarded racing dates in 2018 or in any | 15 | | subsequent year and (2) all organization licensees are | 16 | | operating gaming pursuant to an organization gaming license | 17 | | under the Illinois Gambling Act, then subsection (a) does not | 18 | | apply and organization licensees collectively shall contribute | 19 | | annually to charity the sum of $1,000,000 to community centers | 20 | | awarded grants under the Community Health Center Expansion Act | 21 | | non-profit organizations that provide medical , dental, | 22 | | behavioral health, and family, counseling, and similar | 23 | | services to persons who reside or work on the backstretch of | 24 | | Illinois racetracks. These contributions shall be collected as | 25 | | follows: (i) no later than July 1st of each year the Board | 26 | | shall assess each organization licensee an amount based on the |
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| 1 | | proportionate amount of live racing days in the calendar year | 2 | | for which the Board has awarded to the organization licensee | 3 | | out of the total aggregate number of live racing days awarded; | 4 | | (ii) notice of the assessed contribution shall be mailed to | 5 | | each organization licensee; (iii) within 30 days after its | 6 | | receipt of such notice, each organization licensee shall remit | 7 | | the assessed contribution to the Board. If an organization | 8 | | licensee willfully fails to so remit the contribution, the | 9 | | Board may revoke its license to conduct horse racing. | 10 | | (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any
qualified | 11 | | charitable organization seeking an allotment of
contributed | 12 | | funds shall
submit to the Board an application for those | 13 | | funds, using the
Board's approved
form. No later than December | 14 | | 31st of each year, the Board shall
distribute all such amounts | 15 | | collected that year to such charitable
organization | 16 | | applicants.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 101-31, eff. 6-28-19.)
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