Bill Text: IL HB5788 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that a licensed retail sales agent must obtain adequate written evidence of the age and identity of a person before that licensed retail sales agent solicits that person for the sale of lottery tickets or shares. Provides that a violation of this requirement shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of a license under the Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5788 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB5788-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB5788 Introduced 2/16/2012, by Rep. David Reis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 1605/15 from Ch. 120, par. 1165
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that a licensed retail sales agent must obtain adequate written evidence of the age and identity of a person before that licensed retail sales agent solicits that person for the sale of lottery tickets or shares. Provides that a violation of this requirement shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of a license under the Act.
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AN ACT concerning the Lottery.
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
Section 15 as follows:
(20 ILCS 1605/15) (from Ch. 120, par. 1165)
Sec. 15. Minimum age for purchase; criminal penalty;
solicitation.
(a) No minor under 18 years of age shall buy a lottery
ticket or share. No person shall sell, distribute samples of,
or furnish a lottery ticket or share to any minor under 18
years of age, buy a lottery ticket or share for any minor under
18 years of age, or aid and abet in the purchase of lottery
tickets or shares by a minor under 18 years of age.
No ticket or share shall be purchased by, and no prize
shall be paid to any of the following persons: any member of
the Board or any officer or other person employed by the Board
or by the Department; any spouse, child, brother, sister or
parent residing as a member of the same household in the
principal place of abode of any such persons; or any minor
under 18 years of age.
Any violation of this subsection (a) Section by a person
other than the purchasing minor shall be a Class B misdemeanor;

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provided, that if any violation of this subsection (a) Section
is a subsequent violation, the offender shall be guilty of a
Class 4 felony. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary,
a violation of this subsection (a) Section by a minor under 18
years of age shall be a petty offense.
(b) A licensed retail sales agent must obtain adequate
written evidence of the age and identity of a person before
that licensed retail sales agent solicits that person for the
sale of lottery tickets or shares. A violation of this
subsection (b) shall be grounds for suspension or revocation of
a license under this Act.
For the purpose of this Section, "adequate written evidence
of the age and identity of the person" means a document issued
by a federal, state, county, or municipal government, or
subdivision or agency thereof, including, but not limited to, a
motor vehicle operator's license, a registration certificate
issued under the Federal Selective Service Act, or an
identification card issued to a member of the Armed Forces.
(Source: P.A. 90-346, eff. 8-8-97.)