Full Text of SB0442 94th General Assembly
SB0442sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. John J. Cullerton
Filed: 3/1/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 442
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 442, on page 8, by | 3 |
| replacing lines 13 through 15 with the following: | 4 |
| " (A) Efforts to increase the total handle on | 5 |
| Illinois races. | 6 |
| (B) Efforts to increase purses earned from | 7 |
| pari-mutuel wagering. "; and
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| on page 11, by replacing lines 16 through 18 with the | 9 |
| following: | 10 |
| "Section 27 of this Act. The admission fee shall be $0.15. If | 11 |
| tickets are issued"; and | 12 |
| on page 14, line 26, after the period, by inserting " The Board | 13 |
| shall adopt rules concerning the criteria for approval required | 14 |
| under this subsection (f). "; and | 15 |
| on page 40, by replacing lines 4 through 35 with the following:
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| "(230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
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| Sec. 31.1. (a) Organization licensees
collectively shall | 18 |
| contribute annually to charity the sum of
$750,000
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| non-profit organizations that provide medical and family, | 20 |
| counseling,
and similar services to persons who reside or work | 21 |
| on the backstretch of
Illinois racetracks.
These contributions | 22 |
| shall be collected as follows: (i) no later than July
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| each year the Board shall assess each organization licensee, | 2 |
| except
those tracks which are not within 100 miles of each | 3 |
| other which tracks
shall pay $30,000 annually apiece into the | 4 |
| Board charity fund, that amount
which equals $720,000
$690,000
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| multiplied by the amount of pari-mutuel wagering
handled by the | 6 |
| organization licensee in the year preceding assessment and
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| divided by the total pari-mutuel wagering handled by all | 8 |
| Illinois
organization licensees, except those tracks which are | 9 |
| not within 100 miles of
each other, in the year preceding | 10 |
| assessment; (ii) notice of
the assessed contribution shall be | 11 |
| mailed to each organization licensee;
(iii) within thirty days | 12 |
| of its receipt of such notice, each organization
licensee shall | 13 |
| remit the assessed contribution to the Board. If an
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| organization licensee wilfully fails to so remit the | 15 |
| contribution, the
Board may revoke its license to conduct horse | 16 |
| racing.
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| (a-5) In addition to any amount specified under subsection | 18 |
| (a), each race track that conducts live racing shall contribute | 19 |
| $81,250 annually to the Board's charity fund, except that those | 20 |
| race tracks that are not within 100 miles of any other race | 21 |
| track shall pay $25,000 annually. In addition, all organization | 22 |
| licensees shall pay $50,000 collectively each year from the | 23 |
| purse accounts for thoroughbred racing to the Board's charity | 24 |
| fund on a pro rata basis, based on the total number of | 25 |
| thoroughbred racing days awarded by the Board in the current | 26 |
| year, and all organization licensees shall pay $50,000 | 27 |
| collectively each year from the purse accounts for standardbred | 28 |
| racing to the Board's charity fund on a pro rata basis, based | 29 |
| on the total number of standardbred racing days awarded by the | 30 |
| Board in the current year.
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| (b) No later than October 1st of each year, any
qualified | 32 |
| charitable organization seeking an allotment of
contributed | 33 |
| funds shall
submit to the Board an application for those funds, | 34 |
| using the
Board's approved
form. No later than December 31st of |
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| each year, the Board shall
distribute all such amounts | 2 |
| collected that year to such charitable
organization | 3 |
| applicants.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-110.)".
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