HB5788 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB097 17664 AMC 62874 b

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5788

Introduced 2/16/2012, by Rep. David Reis

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 1605/15

from Ch. 120, par. 1165

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that a licensed retail sales agent must obtain adequate written evidence of the age and identity of a person before that licensed retail sales agent solicits that person for the sale of lottery tickets or shares. Provides that a violation of this requirement shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of a license under the Act.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning the Lottery.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by changing Section 15 as follows:

(20 ILCS 1605/15) (from Ch. 120, par. 1165)

Sec. 15. Minimum age for purchase; criminal penalty; solicitation.

(a) No minor under 18 years of age shall buy a lottery ticket or share. No person shall sell, distribute samples of, or furnish a lottery ticket or share to any minor under 18 years of age, buy a lottery ticket or share for any minor under 18 years of age, or aid and abet in the purchase of lottery tickets or shares by a minor under 18 years of age.

No ticket or share shall be purchased by, and no prize shall be paid to any of the following persons: any member of the Board or any officer or other person employed by the Board or by the Department; any spouse, child, brother, sister or parent residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of abode of any such persons; or any minor under 18 years of age.

Any violation of this subsection (a) Section by a person other than the purchasing minor shall be a Class B misdemeanor; provided, that if any violation of this subsection (a) Section is a subsequent violation, the offender shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, a violation of this subsection (a) Section by a minor under 18 years of age shall be a petty offense.

(b) A licensed retail sales agent must obtain adequate written evidence of the age and identity of a person before that licensed retail sales agent solicits that person for the sale of lottery tickets or shares. A violation of this subsection (b) shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of a license under this Act.

For the purpose of this Section, "adequate written evidence of the age and identity of the person" means a document issued by a federal, state, county, or municipal government, or subdivision or agency thereof, including, but not limited to, a motor vehicle operator's license, a registration certificate issued under the Federal Selective Service Act, or an identification card issued to a member of the Armed Forces.

(Source: P.A. 90-346, eff. 8-8-97.)