Bill Text: IL HB2398 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires lottery tickets and instant scratch-off tickets to provide whether the proceeds from the purchase go toward the Common School Fund or a special cause. Requires the Department of the Lottery to adopt rules to implement the requirements, including providing the size of the description to be printed or published. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2398 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2398-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2398 Introduced , by Rep. Tony McCombie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1605/7.8b new
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires lottery tickets and instant scratch-off tickets to provide whether the proceeds from the purchase go toward the Common School Fund or a special cause. Requires the Department of the Lottery to adopt rules to implement the requirements, including providing the size of the description to be printed or published. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Lottery Law is amended by adding
Section 7.8b as follows:
(20 ILCS 1605/7.8b new)
Sec. 7.8b. Proceed disclosures on lottery tickets.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), on and after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General
Assembly, a ticket or share or instant scratch-off sold under
this Act shall provide that the proceeds from the sale of the
ticket or share or instant scratch-off go towards the Common
School Fund or, for special instant scratch-off games
established under Sections 21.5, 21.6, 21.7, 21.8, 21.9, 21.10,
and 21.11, the cause for which the special instant scratch-off
was established.
(b) On and after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 101st General Assembly, if a multi-state game ticket is
sold in the State through an electronic device, then the sales
screen used by the customer to purchase the multi-state game
ticket shall provide that the proceeds from the sale of the
multi-state game ticket go toward the Common School Fund.
(c) The Department shall adopt rules to implement the

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requirements of subsections (a) and (b). The rules shall
provide for the size, in typographic points, of the description
to be printed or published and the abbreviations that may be
used to make the description readable, whether the ticket or
share is printed or electronically published.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.