Bill Text: IL HB4536 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Removes a provision that requires the Department of the Lottery to publish each January in the Illinois Register a list of all game-specific rules, play instructions, directives, operations manuals, brochures, or other game-specific publications issued by the Department during the previous year and instructions concerning how the public may obtain copies of these materials from the Department. Provides that the Department shall make an effort to more directly inform players of the odds of winning prizes by publishing the information for all games on the Department's public website. Provides that written play instructions shall be made available on the Department's public website or by the Department by request (rather than made available to all players through sales agents licensed to sell game tickets or shares).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4536 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4536-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB4536 Introduced , by Rep. Margaret Croke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1605/7.1 from Ch. 120, par. 1157.1
20 ILCS 1605/10.6 from Ch. 120, par. 1160.6
20 ILCS 1605/19 from Ch. 120, par. 1169
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Removes a provision that requires the Department of the Lottery to publish each January in the Illinois Register a list of all game-specific rules, play instructions, directives, operations manuals, brochures, or other game-specific publications issued by the Department during the previous year and instructions concerning how the public may obtain copies of these materials from the Department. Provides that the Department shall make an effort to more directly inform players of the odds of winning prizes by publishing the information for all games on the Department's public website. Provides that written play instructions shall be made available on the Department's public website or by the Department by request (rather than made available to all players through sales agents licensed to sell game tickets or shares).
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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 Illinois Lottery Law is amended by changing
Sections 7.1, 10.6, and 19 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1605/7.1) (from Ch. 120, par. 1157.1)
Sec. 7.1. The Department shall promulgate such rules and
regulations governing the establishment and operation of a
State lottery as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes
of this Act. Such rules and regulations shall be subject to the
provisions of The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. The
Department shall issue written game rules, play instructions,
directives, operations manuals, brochures, or any other
publications necessary to conduct specific games, as
authorized by rule by the Department. Any written game rules,
play instructions, directives, operations manuals, brochures,
or other game publications issued by the Department that
relate to a specific lottery game shall be maintained as a
public record in the Department's principal office, and made
available for public inspection and copying but shall be
exempt from the rulemaking procedures of the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act. However, when such written
materials contain any policy of general applicability, the

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Department shall formulate and adopt such policy as a rule in
accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Administrative
Procedure Act. In addition, the Department shall publish each
January in the Illinois Register a list of all game-specific
rules, play instructions, directives, operations manuals,
brochures, or other game-specific publications issued by the
Department during the previous year and instructions
concerning how the public may obtain copies of these materials
from the Department.
(Source: P.A. 97-464, eff. 10-15-11.)
(20 ILCS 1605/10.6) (from Ch. 120, par. 1160.6)
Sec. 10.6. The Department shall make an effort to more
directly inform players of the odds of winning prizes by
publishing the information for all games on the Department's
public website. This effort shall include, at a minimum, that
the Department require all ticket agents to display a placard
stating the odds of winning for each game offered by that
agent.
(Source: P.A. 97-464, eff. 10-15-11.)
(20 ILCS 1605/19) (from Ch. 120, par. 1169)
Sec. 19. The Department shall establish an appropriate
period for the claiming of prizes for each lottery game
offered. Each claim period shall be stated in game rules and
written play instructions issued by the Director in accordance

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with Section 7.1 of this Act. Written play instructions shall
be made available on the Department's public website or by the
Department by request to all players through sales agents
licensed to sell game tickets or shares. Prizes for lottery
games which involve the purchase of a physical lottery ticket
may be claimed only by presentation of a valid winning lottery
ticket that matches validation records on file with the
Lottery; no claim may be honored which is based on the
assertion that the ticket was lost or stolen. No lottery
ticket which has been altered, mutilated, or fails to pass
validation tests shall be deemed to be a winning ticket.
If no claim is made for the money within the established
claim period, the prize may be included in the prize pool of
such special drawing or drawings as the Department may, from
time to time, designate. Unclaimed multi-state game prize
money may be included in the multi-state prize pool for such
special drawing or drawings as the multi-state game directors
may, from time to time, designate. Any bonuses offered by the
Department to sales agents who sell winning tickets or shares
shall be payable to such agents regardless of whether or not
the prize money on the ticket or share is claimed, provided
that the agent can be identified as the vendor of the winning
ticket or share, and that the winning ticket or share was sold
on or after January 1, 1984. All unclaimed prize money not
included in the prize pool of a special drawing shall be
transferred to the Common School Fund.

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