103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4799
 
Introduced 2/6/2024, by Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
230 ILCS 10/5.4
    Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Provides the Illinois Gaming Board shall: allow sworn law enforcement personnel employed by the Board who retire in good standing to keep their previously issued Board identification cards; or issue photographic identification cards to sworn law enforcement personnel employed by the Board who retire in good standing that indicate their separation from service and identify the person as having been employed by the Board as sworn law enforcement personnel. Provides that if a Board-issued identification card is lost or stolen, the Board shall immediately re-issue a replacement identification card upon written request by the retired sworn law enforcement personnel. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning gaming.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Gambling Act is amended by 
5changing Section 5.4 as follows:
 
6    (230 ILCS 10/5.4)
7    Sec. 5.4. Retired investigators and sworn law enforcement 
8personnel Retiring investigators; purchase of service firearm 
9and badge.  
10    (a) The Board shall establish a program to allow an 
11investigator appointed under paragraph (20.6) of subsection 
12(c) of Section 4 who is honorably retiring in good standing to 
13purchase either one or both of the following: (1) any badge 
14previously issued to the investigator by the Board; or (2) if 
15the investigator has a currently valid Firearm Owner's 
16Identification Card, the service firearm issued or previously 
17issued to the investigator by the Board. The badge must be 
18permanently and conspicuously marked in such a manner that the 
19individual who possesses the badge is not mistaken for an 
20actively serving law enforcement officer. The cost of the 
21firearm shall be the replacement value of the firearm and not 
22the firearm's fair market value.
23    (b) The Board shall:
 
 
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1        (1) allow sworn law enforcement personnel employed by 
2    the Board who retire in good standing to keep their 
3    previously issued Board identification cards. The Board 
4    shall stamp in red lettering "RETIRED" recognizing their 
5    retired status; or
6        (2) issue photographic identification cards to sworn 
7    law enforcement personnel employed by the Board who retire 
8    in good standing that indicate their separation from 
9    service and identify the person as having been employed by 
10    the Board as sworn law enforcement personnel.
11    If a Board-issued identification card described in this 
12subsection is lost or stolen, the Board shall immediately 
13re-issue a replacement identification card that meets the 
14requirements of paragraph (1) or (2) upon written request by 
15the retired sworn law enforcement personnel. 
16(Source: P.A. 102-719, eff. 5-6-22.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
18becoming law.