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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB2666 Introduced 5/26/2025, by Sen. Mike Porfirio SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that a municipality with a population that is greater than 2,000,000 may not enforce any local ordinance in effect on the effective date of the amendatory Act prohibiting the operation of video gaming terminals within the corporate limits of the municipality. Effective immediately. |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning gaming.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Video Gaming Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 27 as follows:
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| 6 | | (230 ILCS 40/27) |
| 7 | | Sec. 27. Prohibition of video gaming by political |
| 8 | | subdivision. |
| 9 | | (a) A municipality may pass an ordinance prohibiting video |
| 10 | | gaming within the corporate limits of the municipality. A |
| 11 | | county board may, for the unincorporated area of the county, |
| 12 | | pass an ordinance prohibiting video gaming within the |
| 13 | | unincorporated area of the county. |
| 14 | | (b) On and after July 1, 2022, a qualified fraternal |
| 15 | | organization that derives its charter from a national |
| 16 | | fraternal organization and a qualified veterans organization |
| 17 | | that derives its charter from a national veterans organization |
| 18 | | shall be eligible to apply to the Board for a license allowing |
| 19 | | video gaming as a licensed fraternal establishment or a |
| 20 | | licensed veterans establishment if the proposed fraternal |
| 21 | | establishment or veterans establishment is located in: |
| 22 | | (1) a municipality having a population of not more |
| 23 | | than 1,000,000 that has enacted an ordinance prohibiting |
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| 1 | | video gaming within the corporate limits; or |
| 2 | | (2) a county having a population of not more than |
| 3 | | 1,000,000 that has enacted an ordinance prohibiting video |
| 4 | | gaming within the unincorporated area of the county. |
| 5 | | If the license is granted by the Board, then the licensed |
| 6 | | fraternal establishment or licensed veterans establishment may |
| 7 | | operate video gaming terminals pursuant to this Act. |
| 8 | | (c) A municipality with a population that is greater than |
| 9 | | 2,000,000 may not enforce any local ordinance in effect on the |
| 10 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General |
| 11 | | Assembly prohibiting the operation of video gaming terminals |
| 12 | | within the corporate limits of the municipality. This |
| 13 | | subsection (c) is a denial and limitation of home rule powers |
| 14 | | and functions under subsection (g) of Section 6 of Article VII |
| 15 | | of the Illinois Constitution. |
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 102-689, eff. 12-17-21.)
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| 17 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 18 | | becoming law. |
