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90_HB1060
New Act
Creates the Downstate Horse Racing Recovery Act of 1997.
Makes legislative findings and a declaration concerning race
tracks located in a county that has a population of more than
230,000 and that is bounded by the Mississippi River.
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1 AN ACT to create the Downstate Horse Racing Recovery Act
2 of 1997.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
6 Downstate Horse Racing Recovery Act of 1997.
7 Section 5. Legislative findings and declaration. The
8 legislature finds that race tracks located in a county that
9 has a population of more than 230,000 and that is bounded by
10 the Mississippi River face certain hardships. The
11 legislature declares that, as a matter of public policy, it
12 shall take steps in order to ease the hardships felt by such
13 tracks.