Bill Amendment: IL SB1508 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly

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Bill Title: SPORTS GAMING-ADDICTION HELP

Status: 2023-07-28 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0381 [SB1508 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1508-Senate_Amendment_002.html

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Sen. Bill Cunningham

Filed: 3/24/2023

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1508
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1508, AS AMENDED,
by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
following:
"Section 5. The Sports Wagering Act is amended by changing
Section 25-15 as follows:
(230 ILCS 45/25-15)
Sec. 25-15. Board duties and powers.
(a) Except for sports wagering conducted under Section
25-70, the Board shall have the authority to regulate the
conduct of sports wagering under this Act.
(b) The Board may adopt any rules the Board considers
necessary for the successful implementation, administration,
and enforcement of this Act, except for Section 25-70. Rules
proposed by the Board may be adopted as emergency rules
pursuant to Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative

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Procedure Act.
(c) The Board shall levy and collect all fees, surcharges,
civil penalties, and monthly taxes on adjusted gross sports
wagering receipts imposed by this Act and deposit all moneys
into the Sports Wagering Fund, except as otherwise provided
under this Act.
(d) The Board may exercise any other powers necessary to
enforce the provisions of this Act that it regulates and the
rules of the Board.
(e) The Board shall adopt rules for a license to be
employed by a master sports wagering licensee when the
employee works in a designated gaming area that has sports
wagering or performs duties in furtherance of or associated
with the operation of sports wagering by the master sports
wagering licensee (occupational license), which shall require
an annual license fee of $250. However, occupational licenses
issued under the Illinois Gambling Act for employees of an
owners license or organization gaming licensee, once granted,
are considered equivalent licenses to work in sports wagering
positions located at the same gaming facility. License fees
shall be deposited into the State Gaming Fund and used for the
administration of this Act.
(f) The Board may require that licensees share, in real
time and at the sports wagering account level, information
regarding a wagerer, amount and type of wager, the time the
wager was placed, the location of the wager, including the

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Internet protocol address, if applicable, the outcome of the
wager, and records of abnormal wagering activity. Information
shared under this subsection (f) must be submitted in the form
and manner as required by rule. If a sports governing body has
notified the Board that real-time information sharing for
wagers placed on its sports events is necessary and desirable,
licensees may share the same information in the form and
manner required by the Board by rule with the sports governing
body or its designee with respect to wagers on its sports
events subject to applicable federal, State, or local laws or
regulations, including, without limitation, privacy laws and
regulations. Such information may be provided in anonymized
form and may be used by a sports governing body solely for
integrity purposes. For purposes of this subsection (f),
"real-time" means a commercially reasonable periodic interval.
(g) A master sports wagering licensee, professional sports
team, league, or association, sports governing body, or
institution of higher education may submit to the Board in
writing a request to prohibit a type or form of wagering if the
master sports wagering licensee, professional sports team,
league, or association, sports governing body, or institution
of higher education believes that such wagering by type or
form is contrary to public policy, unfair to consumers, or
affects the integrity of a particular sport or the sports
betting industry. The Board shall grant the request upon a
demonstration of good cause from the requester and

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consultation with licensees. The Board shall respond to a
request pursuant to this subsection (g) concerning a
particular event before the start of the event or, if it is not
feasible to respond before the start of the event, as soon as
practicable.
(h) The Board and master sports wagering licensees may
cooperate with investigations conducted by sports governing
bodies or law enforcement agencies, including, but not limited
to, providing and facilitating the provision of account-level
betting information and audio or video files relating to
persons placing wagers.
(i) A master sports wagering licensee shall make
commercially reasonable efforts to promptly notify the Board
any information relating to:
(1) criminal or disciplinary proceedings commenced
against the master sports wagering licensee in connection
with its operations;
(2) abnormal wagering activity or patterns that may
indicate a concern with the integrity of a sports event or
sports events;
(3) any potential breach of the relevant sports
governing body's internal rules and codes of conduct
pertaining to sports wagering that a licensee has
knowledge of;
(4) any other conduct that corrupts a wagering outcome
of a sports event or sports events for purposes of

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financial gain, including match fixing; and
(5) suspicious or illegal wagering activities,
including use of funds derived from illegal activity,
wagers to conceal or launder funds derived from illegal
activity, using agents to place wagers, and using false
identification.
A master sports wagering licensee shall also make
commercially reasonable efforts to promptly report information
relating to conduct described in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4)
of this subsection (i) to the relevant sports governing body.
(j) The Board shall require a licensed online sports
wagering operator to, at least once every hour, display a
message advising the individual of the time elapsed since
logging on, advising the individual of the amount of money
wagered since logging on, and including hyperlinks to websites
and telephone numbers that offer gambling addiction
assistance.
(Source: P.A. 101-31, eff. 6-28-19; 102-689, eff. 12-17-21.)".