Appropriates $6,807,000 to the Auditor General to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the office of the Auditor General. Appropriates $25,398,600 from the Audit Expense Fund to the Auditor General for administrative and operations expenses and audits, studies, investigations, and expenses related to actuarial services. Effective July 1, 2017.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.
Amends the Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the "Medicaid" Article.
Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that the General Assembly states that it is the policy of the State that the primary purpose of the Act is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the State through the sound and careful control and regulation of video gaming through a tiered regulatory system of manufacturers, distributors, terminal operators, licensed establishments, licensed fraternal establishments, licensed veterans establishments, and licensed truck stop establishments. Provides that to ensure and maintain a tiered regulatory system, the General Assembly finds that it is the obligation and duty of the Illinois Gaming Board to construe the provisions of the Act in a manner that conforms to State policy and the Act's primary purpose and to exercise its statutory authority in a manner consistent with that purpose whether or not the provisions of this Act are unambiguous or capable of one or more reasonable constructions.
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that, if for any reason the General Assembly fails to make appropriations of amounts sufficient from the State Lottery Fund to the Department of the Lottery for payment of prizes to holders of winning lottery tickets or shares, including prizes related to Multi-State Lottery games, and payment of promotional or incentive prizes associated with the sale of lottery tickets, then the provision constitutes an irrevocable and continuing appropriation of all amounts necessary for that purpose, and the irrevocable and continuing authority for and direction to the Comptroller and to the Treasurer of the State to make the necessary transfers out of and disbursements from the State Lottery Fund for that purpose. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Finance Act. Provides for transfers from certain listed funds into the Audit Expense Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires the Department of the Lottery, beginning on July 1, 2017 or as soon thereafter as is practical, to offer a special instant scratch-off game to benefit the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago's Basic Human Needs Services. Requires the net revenue from that game to be deposited into the Basic Human Needs Revenue Fund. Provides that moneys deposited into the Basic Human Needs Revenue Fund shall be used by the Department of Human Services to fund grants to the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago's Basic Human Needs Services. Authorizes the Department to adopt rules necessary to implement and administer the game. Defines "net revenue". Amends the State Finance Act to create the Basic Human Needs Revenue Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Effective immediately.
Amends the Consumer Installment Loan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a license required to engage in the business of making loans of money in a principal amount not exceeding $40,000.
