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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 606
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 606 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT to amend the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 by
5 changing Section 31.1."; and
6 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
7 following:
8 "Section 5. The Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 is
9 amended by changing Section 31.1 as follows:
10 (230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
11 Sec. 31.1. (a) Organization licensees collectively shall
12 contribute annually to charity the sum of $750,000 to
13 non-profit organizations that provide medical and family,
14 counseling, and similar services to persons who reside or
15 work on the backstretch of Illinois racetracks. These
16 contributions shall be collected as follows: (i) no later
17 than July 1st of each year the Board shall assess each
18 organization licensee, (except those tracks which are not
19 within 100 miles of each other and except any track that did
20 not conduct live racing during the previous year, which
21 tracks shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the Board
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1 charity fund), that amount which equals $690,000 multiplied
2 by the amount of pari-mutuel wagering handled by the
3 organization licensee in the year preceding assessment and
4 divided by the total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all
5 Illinois organization licensees, (except those tracks which
6 are not within 100 miles of each other and except any track
7 that did not conduct live racing during the previous year),
8 in the year preceding assessment; (ii) notice of the assessed
9 contribution shall be mailed to each organization licensee;
10 (iii) within thirty days of its receipt of such notice, each
11 organization licensee shall remit the assessed contribution
12 to the Board. If an organization licensee wilfully fails to
13 so remit the contribution, the Board may revoke its license
14 to conduct horse racing.
15 (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any
16 qualified charitable organization seeking an allotment of
17 contributed funds shall submit to the Board an application
18 for those funds, using the Board's approved form. No later
19 than December 31st of each year, the Board shall distribute
20 all such amounts collected that year to such charitable
21 organization applicants.
22 (Source: P.A. 87-110.)
23 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
24 becoming law.".