Bill Text: IL HB3371 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create a Youth Sports Referee Program to provide improved compensation and protections to referees employed by youth sports leagues. Provides that the Program shall: (1) develop standards that protect referees by authorizing them to eject disruptive spectators, including parents, from the premises of a sporting event held by a youth sports league; and (2) provide grants to youth sports leagues that adopt the standards to compensate referees at least $50 per game officiated. Provides that the Department may adopt any rules necessary to administer the program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3371 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB3371-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB3371 Introduced , by Rep. Dave Vella SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 605/605-1110 new
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create a Youth Sports Referee Program to provide improved compensation and protections to referees employed by youth sports leagues. Provides that the Program shall: (1) develop standards that protect referees by authorizing them to eject disruptive spectators, including parents, from the premises of a sporting event held by a youth sports league; and (2) provide grants to youth sports leagues that adopt the standards to compensate referees at least $50 per game officiated. Provides that the Department may adopt any rules necessary to administer the program.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois
is amended by adding Section 605-1110 as follows:
(20 ILCS 605/605-1110 new)
Sec. 605-1110. Youth Sports Referee Program.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Referee" means a person who officiates at a sponsored
youth sports activity, such as a referee or umpire, including,
but not limited to, persons enrolled as game officials by the
Illinois High School Association, the Illinois Elementary
School Association, or a youth sports league.
"Youth sports league" means any incorporated or
unincorporated, for-profit or not-for-profit entity that
organizes and provides sponsored youth sports activities,
including, but not limited to, any athletic association,
organization, or federation in this State that is owned,
operated, sanctioned, or sponsored by a unit of local
government or that is owned, operated, sanctioned, or
sponsored by a private person or entity, as well as any amateur
athletic organization or qualified amateur sports organization

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in this State under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.
501(c)(3) or 501(j)).
(b) The Department shall create a Youth Sports Referee
Program to provide improved compensation and protections to
referees employed by youth sports league. The Program shall:
(1) develop standards that protect referees by
authorizing them to eject disruptive spectators, including
parents, from the premises of a sporting event held by a
youth sports league; and
(2) provide grants to youth sports leagues that adopt
the standards described in paragraph (1) to compensate
referees at least $50 per game officiated.
(c) The Department may adopt any rules necessary to
administer the provisions of this Section.