Bill Text: IL HB3417 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that if a licensee has not violated the Act or its rules for 3 years, then the Illinois Gaming Board may renew the license for a period of 4 years unless sooner cancelled or terminated. Provides that certain fees collected under the Act shall continue to be collected annually.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3417 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3417-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB3417 Introduced , by Rep. Arthur Turner SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
230 ILCS 40/50
Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that if a licensee has not violated the Act or its rules for 3 years, then the Illinois Gaming Board may renew the license for a period of 4 years unless sooner cancelled or terminated. Provides that certain fees collected under the Act shall continue to be collected annually.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning gaming.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Video Gaming Act is amended by changing
Section 50 as follows:
(230 ILCS 40/50)
Sec. 50. Distribution of license fees.
(a) All fees collected under Section 45 shall be deposited
into the State Gaming Fund.
(b) Fees collected under Section 45 shall be used as
follows:
(1) Twenty-five percent shall be paid, subject to
appropriation by the General Assembly, to the Department of
Human Services for administration of programs for the
treatment of compulsive gambling.
(2) Seventy-five percent shall be used for the
administration of this Act.
(c) Except as otherwise provided for in this subsection
(b), all All licenses issued by the Board under this Act are
renewable annually unless sooner cancelled or terminated. If a
licensee has not violated this Act or its rules for 3 years,
then the Board may renew the license for a period of 4 years
unless sooner cancelled or terminated; however, fees collected

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under subsection (g) Section 45 shall always be collected
annually. No license issued under this Act is transferable or
assignable.
(Source: P.A. 96-34, eff. 7-13-09; 96-37, eff. 7-13-09.)