Sen. Bill Cunningham

Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Directs the Secretary of State to grant a waiver of the lobbyist registration fee for any not-for-profit entity with an annual budget of less than $5,000,000 that is classified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including a waiver for any lobbyist that exclusively lobbies on behalf of such an entity.

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that administrative or technical information associated with automated data operations shall be exempt from inspection and copying, but only to the extent that disclosure would jeopardize the security of the system or its data or the security of materials exempt under the Act.

Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Removes language providing that no employee of the Illinois Racing Board, within a period of one year immediately preceding employment, shall have been employed or received compensation or fees for services from a person or entity, or its parent or affiliate, that has engaged in business with the Board, a licensee, or a licensee under the Illinois Gambling Act. Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Removes language providing that no employee of the Illinois Gaming Board, within a period of one year immediately preceding employment, shall have been employed or received compensation or fees for services from a person or entity, or its parent or affiliate, that has engaged in business with the Board, a licensee, or a licensee under the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975.

Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that the Illinois Gaming Board may require video gaming terminals to display a message informing players they may round their winnings down to the nearest whole dollar amount and donate the difference to the special causes described in the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that the Board shall adopt rules to establish additional criteria and processes to enable video gaming terminals and payout machines to offer players the option to round winnings down to the nearest whole dollar amount or $0 and donate the difference to the State Lottery Fund for distribution to the special causes. Provides that tickets dispensed by pressing the ticket dispensing button on the video gaming terminal must also indicate the total amount to be donated to the special causes.

Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Provides that the Illinois Gaming Board shall create, by no later than January 1, 2025, a website that allows an individual to place the individual's name on the self-exclusion list maintained by the Board. Directs the Board to adopt rules to implement and administer this requirement.

Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program. Effective July 1, 2024.

Maddy summaryThis bill allocates $8 million from the state's general revenue fund to the State Board of Education to support YouthBuild Illinois. The funding is intended to provide grants for programs that help young people gain education and job training skills. The financial transfer becomes effective on July 1, 2024.

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Provides that the Department of the Lottery's rules shall allow a consumer to redeem all sums of winnings and to withdraw unspent money deposited in the consumer's internet lottery account in the same manner in which it was deposited.

Amends the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Manufacturing Mentorship Program to be administered by the Department of Labor for the purpose of exposing minors who are 17 years of age to manufacturing occupations in the State through temporary employment with an employer. Provides for educational and training requirements that an employer must satisfy to ensure the safety of minors. Provides that the Director of Labor, in consultation with employers, shall adopt rules specifying a list of the tools that a minor who is employed under the program may operate during the minor's employment in a manufacturing occupation. Amends the Child Labor Law. Provides that nothing in the Act applies to the employment of a minor, 17 years of age, in a manufacturing occupation under the Manufacturing Mentorship Program. Effective July 1, 2024.

Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the senior citizens homestead exemption, permanently removes the requirement to reapply for the exemption in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants (currently, that requirement was eliminated only for taxable years 2019 through 2023). In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, provides that, if the county board passes a resolution removing the requirement to reapply for the exemption, the chief county assessment official shall conduct, by no later than December 31 of the first year of each reassessment cycle, an audit of all senior citizen homestead exemptions granted for the preceding reassessment cycle.