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90_HB0606ham001

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 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 606
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  606  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT to amend the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 by
 5    changing Section 31.1."; and
 6    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 7    following:
 8        "Section 5.  The Illinois Horse Racing  Act  of  1975  is
 9    amended by changing Section 31.1 as follows:
10        (230 ILCS 5/31.1) (from Ch. 8, par. 37-31.1)
11        Sec. 31.1.  (a) Organization licensees collectively shall
12    contribute  annually  to  charity  the  sum  of  $750,000  to
13    non-profit  organizations  that  provide  medical and family,
14    counseling, and similar services to  persons  who  reside  or
15    work  on  the  backstretch  of  Illinois  racetracks.   These
16    contributions  shall  be  collected as follows:  (i) no later
17    than July 1st of  each  year  the  Board  shall  assess  each
18    organization  licensee,  (except  those  tracks which are not
19    within 100 miles of each other and except any track that  did
20    not  conduct  live  racing  during  the  previous year, which
21    tracks shall pay  $30,000  annually  apiece  into  the  Board
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 1    charity  fund),  that amount which equals $690,000 multiplied
 2    by  the  amount  of  pari-mutuel  wagering  handled  by   the
 3    organization  licensee  in  the year preceding assessment and
 4    divided by the total  pari-mutuel  wagering  handled  by  all
 5    Illinois  organization  licensees, (except those tracks which
 6    are not within 100 miles of each other and except  any  track
 7    that  did  not conduct live racing during the previous year),
 8    in the year preceding assessment; (ii) notice of the assessed
 9    contribution shall be mailed to each  organization  licensee;
10    (iii)  within thirty days of its receipt of such notice, each
11    organization licensee shall remit the  assessed  contribution
12    to  the Board.  If an organization licensee wilfully fails to
13    so remit the contribution, the Board may revoke  its  license
14    to conduct horse racing.
15        (b)  No   later  than  October  1st  of  each  year,  any
16    qualified charitable organization  seeking  an  allotment  of
17    contributed  funds  shall  submit to the Board an application
18    for those funds, using the Board's approved  form.  No  later
19    than  December  31st of each year, the Board shall distribute
20    all such amounts  collected  that  year  to  such  charitable
21    organization applicants.
22    (Source: P.A. 87-110.)
23        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
24    becoming law.".

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