Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB2513

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB2513

Introduced 2/4/2025, by Rep. Dan Swanson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 805/805-72
20 ILCS 1605/9.3
20 ILCS 1605/20	from Ch. 120, par. 1170
20 ILCS 1605/21.4
20 ILCS 1605/21.16.5 new

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that the Department of the Lottery shall offer a special Lyme Disease Innovation instant scratch-off game for the benefit of the Lyme Disease Innovation Program with net revenue deposited into the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund. Grants the Department of the Lottery rulemaking powers. Adds references to the Lyme Disease Innovation scratch-off game to various provisions in the Act. Provides that the Department shall offer the game upon the discontinuation of the first game that is discontinued under certain provisions of the law. Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Specifies that the Lyme Disease Innovation Program shall be funded through moneys in the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund, including revenue generated from the Lyme Disease Innovation scratch-off game.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing Section 805-72 as follows:

(20 ILCS 805/805-72)

Sec. 805-72. Lyme Disease Innovation Program.

(a) The Department shall consult with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Public Health, and members of the University of Illinois' INHS Medical Entomology Program to establish the Lyme Disease Innovation Program no later than one year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly. The Department shall contract with an Illinois not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to raise awareness of tick-borne diseases with the public and the medical community to operate the Program. The Program's purpose is to raise awareness with the public and to assist persons at risk of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases with education and awareness materials and campaigns while developing evidence-based approaches that are cost-effective.

(b) The Program shall implement a statewide interagency and multipronged approach to combat Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases in Illinois, including adopting an evidence-based model that recognizes the key roles that patients, advocates, and not-for-profit organizations have in fighting Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases. The Program's objectives include issuing grants, subject to the approval of the Department, to State agencies and Illinois not-for profit organizations from moneys in the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund, which is hereby established as a special fund in the State treasury, and other appropriations for the following purposes:

(1) Bringing awareness of Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases by any one or more of the following methods:

(A) creating innovative ideas and collaborations for raising awareness about risks and prevention;

(B) amplifying and improving access to essential information supporting innovations in prevention, education, and care with open data and science;

(C) fostering the development of new, community-based education and prevention efforts; and

(D) using programs, website advertising, pamphlets, or other methods to increase the awareness of Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases;

(2) Engaging stakeholders to facilitate patient-centered innovations by (i) building trust among stakeholders through listening sessions, roundtables, and other learning approaches that ground innovations in lived experience, (ii) engaging stakeholders in identifying current areas of need to promote targeted innovations that will make real-world improvements in quality of care, and (iii) gaining insight into patient needs and priorities through stakeholders' collective wisdom and applying that wisdom in shaping future innovation challenges and events.

(3) Advancing stakeholder driven interdisciplinary and interagency collaborations by providing resources to not-for-profit organizations whose purpose is to raise awareness of tick-borne diseases with the public and the medical community in order to (i) facilitate the stakeholder engagement and collaborations and patient-centered innovations and support groups, (ii) identify ways to better collect and share data while raising awareness of tick-borne illnesses, and (iii) assist with the development of outreach and education materials and approaches for State agencies.

(4) The University of Illinois' INHS Medical Entomology Program maintaining a passive tick and tick-borne pathogen surveillance program, based on ticks contributed by the Illinois public, and including tick identifications and disease-agent testing of a subset of identified ticks; compiling evidence and conducting research on tick bite prevention and risk of tick and tick-borne pathogen exposure; and providing evidence, results, and analysis and insight from both the passive surveillance program, on tick species and tick-borne disease-agent distributions and diversity in the State, and its related research on tick bite exposure and prevention, to support the Lyme Disease Innovation Program objectives.

(c) The Program shall be funded through moneys deposited into the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund, including revenue from the Lyme Disease Innovation scratch-off game, and other appropriations. The not-for-profit organization contracted with to operate the Program shall be paid, subject to the approval of the Department, for its operation of the Program from moneys deposited into the Fund or from other appropriations.

The University of Illinois' Prairie Research Institute shall be paid, subject to the approval of the Department, for the INHS Medical Entomology Program's operation of a passive tick surveillance and research program from moneys deposited into the Fund or from other appropriations.

(d) The Department must adopt rules to implement this Section.

(e) The requirements of this Section are subject to appropriation by the General Assembly being made to the Department to implement the requirements.

(Source: P.A. 103-557, eff. 8-11-23.)

Section 10. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by changing Sections 9.3, 20, and 21.4 and by adding Section 21.16.5 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1605/9.3)

Sec. 9.3. Expenditure and distribution of lottery proceeds.

(a) Beginning July 1, 2022, except as provided in Sections 21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 21.8, 21.9, 21.10, 21.11, 21.13, 21.15, and 21.16, and 21.16.5 of this Law and Section 25-70 of the Sports Wagering Act, the Department shall distribute all proceeds of lottery tickets and shares sold in the following priority and manner:

(1) The payment of prizes and retailer bonuses.

(2) The payment of costs incurred in the operation and administration of the Lottery, including the payment of sums due to the private manager under the management agreement with the Department and including costs of administering the Lottery sports wagering program pursuant to Section 25-70 of the Sports Wagering Act.

(3) On the last day of each month or as soon thereafter as possible, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer from the State Lottery Fund to the Common School Fund the Department's estimate of net lottery proceeds.

(4) If an amount in excess of the annual net lottery proceeds is transferred for a fiscal year, then the Department shall offset the monthly transfers of estimated net lottery proceeds during the following fiscal year by that excess amount. If an amount less than the annual net lottery proceeds is transferred for a fiscal year, then after the related annual fiscal year audit is completed following such fiscal year, the Department shall direct the deposit of any remaining annual net lottery proceeds from such fiscal year, subject to payments under paragraphs (1) and (2), into the Common School Fund as soon thereafter as possible.

(b) The net lottery proceeds shall be determined by deducting from total annual lottery proceeds the expenditures required by paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a). The total annual lottery proceeds and annual net lottery proceeds shall be determined according to generally accepted accounting principles for governmental entities and verified by an annual fiscal year audit.

(Source: P.A. 102-699, eff. 4-19-22; 103-381, eff. 7-28-23.)

(20 ILCS 1605/20) (from Ch. 120, par. 1170)

Sec. 20. State Lottery Fund.

(a) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the State Lottery Fund. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received from (1) the sale of lottery tickets or shares, (net of commissions, fees representing those expenses that are directly proportionate to the sale of tickets or shares at the agent location, and prizes of less than $600 which have been validly paid at the agent level), (2) application fees, and (3) all other sources including moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Interest earnings of the State Lottery Fund shall be credited to the Common School Fund.

(a-5) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.4 of this Act shall be in accordance with Section 21.4.

(b) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.5 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.5.

(c) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.6 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.6.

(d) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.7 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.7.

(e) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.8 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.8.

(f) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.9 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.9.

(g) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.10 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.10.

(h) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.11 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.11.

(i) (Blank).

(j) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.13 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.13.

(k) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 25-70 of the Sports Wagering Act shall be in accordance with Section 25-70 of the Sports Wagering Act.

(l) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.15 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.15.

(m) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.16 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.16.

(n) The receipt and distribution of moneys under Section 21.16.5 of this Law shall be in accordance with Section 21.16.5.

(Source: P.A. 102-16, eff. 6-17-21; 103-381, eff. 7-28-23.)

(20 ILCS 1605/21.4)

Sec. 21.4. Joint Special Instant Scratch-off game.

(a) The Department shall offer a joint special instant scratch-off game for the benefit of the special causes identified in Sections 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 21.8, 21.9, 21.10, 21.11, 21.13, 21.15, and 21.16, and 21.16.5. The operation of the game shall be governed by this Section and any rules adopted by the Department. The game shall commence on January 1, 2024 or as soon thereafter, at the discretion of the Director, as is reasonably practical and shall be discontinued on January 1, 2027. If any provision of this Section is inconsistent with any other provision in the Act, then this Section governs.

(b) Once the joint special instant scratch-off game is used to fund a special cause, the game will be used to fund the special cause for the remainder of the special causes' existence per the causes' respective Section of this Act.

(c) New specialty tickets and causes authorized by this Act shall be funded by the joint special instant scratch-off game. New specialty tickets and causes after February 1, 2024 must have a sunset date. The Department shall be limited to supporting no more than 10 causes in total at any given time.

(d) Net revenue received from the sale of the joint special instant scratch-off game for the purposes of this Section shall be divided equally among the special causes the game benefits. At the direction of the Department, the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer from the State Lottery Fund the net revenue to the specific fund identified for each special cause in accordance with the special cause's respective Section in this Act. As used in this Section, "net revenue" means the total amount for which tickets have been sold less the sum of the amount paid out in prizes and to retailers, and direct and estimated administrative expenses incurred in operation of the ticket.

(Source: P.A. 103-381, eff. 7-28-23; 103-574, eff. 12-8-23.)

(20 ILCS 1605/21.16.5 new)

Sec. 21.16.5. Scratch-off for Lyme Disease Innovation.

(a) The Department shall offer a special Lyme Disease Innovation instant scratch-off game for the benefit of the Illinois-based Lyme Disease Innovation Program. The net revenue from the Lyme Disease Innovation scratch-off game shall be deposited into the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund, a special fund in the State treasury, for the purposes set forth in Section 805-72 of the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. The game shall commence on January 1, 2026, or as soon thereafter as is reasonably practical, and shall be discontinued on December 31, 2035. The Department shall consult with the Department of Natural Resources regarding the design and promotion of the game. The Department shall offer the game enumerated under this Section upon the discontinuation of the first game that is discontinued within the Joint Special Instant Scratch-Off game that is created under Section 21.4 of this law.

(b) The operation of any games under this Section shall be governed by this Act and any rules adopted by the Department under this Act.

(c) In this Section, "net revenue" means the total amount for which tickets have been sold less the sum of the amount paid out in prizes and the actual administrative expenses of the Department solely related to the Lyme Disease Innovation scratch-off game.

(d) During the time that tickets are sold for the Lyme Disease Innovation scratch-off game, the Department shall not unreasonably diminish the efforts devoted to marketing any other instant scratch-off lottery game.

(e) The Department may adopt any rules necessary to implement and administer this Section.