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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2884
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2884 on page 4, by
3 inserting the following after line 22:
4 "Section 15. The Bingo License and Tax Act is amended by
5 changing Section 2 as follows:
6 (230 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 1102)
7 Sec. 2. The conducting of bingo is subject to the
8 following restrictions:
9 (1) The entire net proceeds from bingo play must be
10 exclusively devoted to the lawful purposes of the
11 organization permitted to conduct that game.
12 (2) (Blank). No person except a bona fide member of the
13 sponsoring organization or a bona fide member of an auxiliary
14 organization, substantially all of whose members are spouses
15 of members of the sponsoring organization may participate in
16 the management or operation of the game.
17 (3) No person may receive any remuneration or profit for
18 participating in the management or operation of the game,
19 except that if an organization licensed under this Act is
20 associated with a school or other educational institution,
21 that school or institution may reduce tuition or fees for a
22 designated pupil based on participation in the management or
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1 operation of the game by any member of the organization. The
2 extent to which tuition and fees are reduced shall relate
3 proportionately to the amount of time volunteered by the
4 member, as determined by the school or other educational
5 institution.
6 (4) The aggregate retail value of all prizes or
7 merchandise awarded in any single day of bingo may not exceed
8 $2,250, except that in adjoining counties having 200,000 to
9 275,000 inhabitants each, and in counties which are adjacent
10 to either of such adjoining counties and are adjacent to a
11 total of not more than 2 counties in this State, and in any
12 municipality having 2,500 or more inhabitants and within one
13 mile of such adjoining and adjacent counties having less than
14 25,000 inhabitants, 2 additional bingo games may be conducted
15 after the $2,250 limit has been reached. The prize awarded
16 for any one game, including any game conducted after reaching
17 the $2,250 limit as authorized in this paragraph (4), may not
18 exceed $500 cash or its equivalent.
19 (5) The number of games may not exceed 25 in any one day
20 including regular and special games, except that this
21 restriction on the number of games shall not apply to bingo
22 conducted at the Illinois State Fair or any county fair held
23 in Illinois.
24 (6) The price paid for a single card under the license
25 may not exceed $1 and such card is valid for all regular
26 games on that day of bingo. A maximum of 5 special games may
27 be held on each bingo day, except that this restriction on
28 the number of special games shall not apply to bingo
29 conducted at the Illinois State Fair or any county fair held
30 in Illinois. The price for a single special game card may not
31 exceed 50 cents.
32 (7) The number of bingo days conducted by a licensee
33 under this Act is limited to one per week, except as follows:
34 (i) Bingo may be conducted in accordance with the
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1 terms of a special operator's permit or limited license
2 issued under subdivision (3) of Section 1.
3 (ii) Bingo may be conducted at the Illinois State
4 Fair or any county fair held in Illinois under
5 subdivision (3) of Section 1.
6 (iii) A licensee which cancels a day of bingo
7 because of inclement weather or because the day is a
8 holiday or the eve of a holiday may, after giving notice
9 to the Department, conduct bingo on an additional date
10 which falls on a day of the week other than the day
11 authorized under the license. As used in this
12 subdivision (iii), "holiday" means any of the holidays
13 listed in Section 17 of the Promissory Note and Bank
14 Holiday Act.
15 (8) A licensee may rent a premises on which to conduct
16 bingo only from an organization which is licensed as a
17 provider of premises or exempt from license requirements
18 under this Act. If the organization providing the premises is
19 a metropolitan exposition, auditorium, and office building
20 authority created by State law, a licensee may enter into a
21 rental agreement with the organization authorizing the
22 licensee and the organization to share the gross proceeds of
23 bingo games; however, the organization shall not receive more
24 than 50% of the gross proceeds.
25 (9) No person under the age of 18 years may play or
26 participate in the conducting of bingo. Any person under the
27 age of 18 years may be within the area where bingo is being
28 played only when accompanied by his parent or guardian.
29 (10) The promoter of bingo games must have a proprietary
30 interest in the game promoted.
31 (11) Raffles or other forms of gambling prohibited by
32 law shall not be conducted on the premises where bingo is
33 being conducted, except that pull tabs and jar games
34 conducted under the Illinois Pull Tabs and Jar Games Act may
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1 be conducted on the premises where bingo is being conducted.
2 Prizes awarded in pull tabs and jar games shall not be
3 included in the bingo prize limitation.
4 (12) An organization holding a special operator's permit
5 or a limited license may, as one of the occasions allowed by
6 such permit or license, conduct bingo for a maximum of 2
7 consecutive days, during each day of which the number of
8 games may exceed 25, and regular game cards need not be valid
9 for all regular games. If only noncash prizes are awarded
10 during such occasions, the prize limits stated in paragraph
11 (4) of this Section shall not apply, provided that the retail
12 value of noncash prizes for any single game shall not exceed
13 $150.
14 (Source: P.A. 87-220; 87-1175; 88-53.)".