Sen. Terry Link
Filed: 5/31/2009
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 26
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 26 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 is | ||||||
5 | amended by changing Sections 28.1 and 32.1 and by adding | ||||||
6 | Section 28.2 as follows:
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7 | (230 ILCS 5/28.1)
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8 | Sec. 28.1. Payments.
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9 | (a) Beginning on January 1, 2000, moneys collected by the | ||||||
10 | Department of
Revenue and the Racing Board pursuant to Section | ||||||
11 | 26 or Section 27
of this Act shall be deposited into the Horse | ||||||
12 | Racing Fund, which is hereby
created as a special fund in the | ||||||
13 | State Treasury.
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14 | (b) Appropriations, as approved by the General
Assembly, | ||||||
15 | may be made from
the Horse Racing Fund to the Board to pay the
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16 | salaries of the Board members, secretary, stewards,
directors |
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1 | of mutuels, veterinarians, representatives, accountants,
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2 | clerks, stenographers, inspectors and other employees of the | ||||||
3 | Board, and
all expenses of the Board incident to the | ||||||
4 | administration of this Act,
including, but not limited to, all | ||||||
5 | expenses and salaries incident to the
taking of saliva and | ||||||
6 | urine samples in accordance with the rules and
regulations of | ||||||
7 | the Board.
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8 | (b-5) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
9 | Act of the 96th General Assembly, the amount of $1,000,000 | ||||||
10 | shall be transferred annually from the Horse Racing Fund and | ||||||
11 | divided proportionally for deposit into the Illinois | ||||||
12 | Thoroughbred Breeder's Fund, the Illinois Racing Quarter Horse | ||||||
13 | Breeder's Fund, and, for standardbred horses, the Illinois Colt | ||||||
14 | Stakes Purse Distribution Fund, based on races conducted by | ||||||
15 | each breed at Illinois county fairs, the DuQuoin State Fair, | ||||||
16 | and the Illinois State Fair in calendar year 2008. | ||||||
17 | (c) Beginning on January 1, 2000, the Board shall
transfer | ||||||
18 | the remainder of the funds
generated pursuant to Sections 26 | ||||||
19 | and 27 from the Horse Racing Fund into the
General Revenue | ||||||
20 | Fund.
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21 | (d) Beginning January 1, 2000, payments to all programs in | ||||||
22 | existence on the
effective date of this amendatory Act of 1999 | ||||||
23 | that are identified in Sections
26(c), 26(f), 26(h)(11)(C), and | ||||||
24 | 28, subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f),
(g), and (h) of | ||||||
25 | Section 30, and subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g),
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26 | and (h) of Section 31 shall be made from the General Revenue |
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1 | Fund at the
funding levels determined by amounts paid under | ||||||
2 | this Act in calendar year
1998. Beginning on the effective date | ||||||
3 | of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, payments | ||||||
4 | to the Peoria Park District shall be made from the General | ||||||
5 | Revenue Fund at the funding level determined by amounts paid to | ||||||
6 | that park district for museum purposes under this Act in | ||||||
7 | calendar year 1994. Beginning on the effective date of this | ||||||
8 | amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, in lieu of | ||||||
9 | payments to the Champaign Park District for museum purposes, | ||||||
10 | payments to the Urbana Park District shall be made from the | ||||||
11 | General Revenue Fund at the funding level determined by amounts | ||||||
12 | paid to the Champaign Park District for museum purposes under | ||||||
13 | this Act in calendar year 2005.
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14 | (e) Beginning July 1, 2006, the payment authorized under | ||||||
15 | subsection (d) to museums and aquariums located in park | ||||||
16 | districts of over 500,000 population shall be paid to museums, | ||||||
17 | aquariums, and zoos in amounts determined by Museums in the | ||||||
18 | Park, an association of museums, aquariums, and zoos located on | ||||||
19 | Chicago Park District property.
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20 | (f) Beginning July 1, 2007, the Children's Discovery Museum | ||||||
21 | in Normal, Illinois shall receive payments from the General | ||||||
22 | Revenue Fund at the funding level determined by the amounts | ||||||
23 | paid to the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois under this | ||||||
24 | Section in calendar year 2006.
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25 | (Source: P.A. 94-813, eff. 5-26-06; 95-222, eff. 8-16-07.)
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1 | (230 ILCS 5/28.2 new) | ||||||
2 | Sec. 28.2. Drug testing at Illinois county fairs. | ||||||
3 | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, annually, the | ||||||
4 | Illinois Department of Agriculture may take the sum of $100,000 | ||||||
5 | proportionally from the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeder's Fund, | ||||||
6 | the Illinois Racing Quarter Horse Breeder's Fund, and the | ||||||
7 | Illinois Colt Stakes Purse Distribution Fund based on amounts | ||||||
8 | deposited into those funds under subsection (b-5) of Section | ||||||
9 | 28.1 to pay for drug testing at Illinois county fairs.
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10 | (230 ILCS 5/32.1)
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11 | Sec. 32.1. Pari-mutuel tax credit; statewide racetrack | ||||||
12 | real estate
equalization.
In order to encourage new investment | ||||||
13 | in Illinois racetrack facilities and
mitigate differing real | ||||||
14 | estate tax burdens among all racetracks, the licensees
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15 | affiliated or associated with each racetrack that has been | ||||||
16 | awarded live racing
dates in the current year and that | ||||||
17 | conducted live racing in 1998 shall receive an immediate | ||||||
18 | pari-mutuel tax credit in
an amount equal to the greater of (i) | ||||||
19 | 50% of the amount of the real estate
taxes paid in the prior | ||||||
20 | year attributable to that racetrack, or (ii) the amount
by | ||||||
21 | which the real estate taxes paid in the prior year attributable | ||||||
22 | to that
racetrack exceeds 60% of the average real estate taxes | ||||||
23 | paid in the prior year
for all racetracks awarded live horse | ||||||
24 | racing meets in the current year.
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25 | Each year, regardless of whether the organization licensee |
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1 | conducted live
racing in the year of certification, the
Board | ||||||
2 | shall certify in writing, prior to December 31, the real
estate | ||||||
3 | taxes paid in that year for each racetrack and the amount of | ||||||
4 | the
pari-mutuel tax credit that each organization licensee, | ||||||
5 | intertrack wagering
licensee, and intertrack wagering location | ||||||
6 | licensee that derives its license
from such racetrack is | ||||||
7 | entitled in the succeeding calendar year. The real
estate taxes | ||||||
8 | considered under this Section
for any racetrack shall be those | ||||||
9 | taxes on the real estate parcels and related
facilities used to | ||||||
10 | conduct a horse race meeting and inter-track wagering at
such
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11 | racetrack under this Act.
In no event shall the amount of the | ||||||
12 | tax credit under this Section exceed the
amount of pari-mutuel | ||||||
13 | taxes otherwise calculated under this Act.
The amount of the | ||||||
14 | tax credit under this Section
shall be retained by each | ||||||
15 | licensee and shall not be subject to any reallocation
or | ||||||
16 | further distribution under this Act. The Board may promulgate | ||||||
17 | emergency
rules to implement this Section.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 91-40, eff. 6-25-99.)
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19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
20 | becoming law.".
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