Amendment to Illinois Bill Filed
The Illinois Gaming Board and the Governor’s Office of Budget and Management (GOMB) notified iDEA that they would drop their opposition to SB 323 (Castro) – the iDEA-initiated supplier renewal fee fix bill – if the renewal fee was increased from $50,000 for a 4-year period to $150,000 for a 4-year period (instead of the current fee of $600,000 over a 4-year period). An amendment incorporating this change was filed on Mar. 9.
On Mar. 7, the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committed passed SB 1508 (Cunningham). As background, SB 1508 would require online sports betting sites in Illinois to show a pop-up message about webpages offering help with gambling addiction after every 10 wagers made.
The Illinois iGaming bills SB 1656 (Castro) and HB 2239 (Gonzalez) fails to advance past the Mar. 10 committee deadline. The bills would allow operators to have three skins and would impose a tax rate of 15%.