Bill Text: IL HR0357 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the Illinois Gaming Board to conduct a disparity study on whether minority and women-owned businesses face any barriers that prevent their equitable participation in the business of legalized sports wagering.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0357 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0357-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 3 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 4 | we direct the Illinois Gaming Board to conduct a disparity | ||||||
| 5 | study on whether minority and women-owned businesses face any | ||||||
| 6 | barriers
that prevent their equitable participation in the | ||||||
| 7 | business of legalized sports
wagering; and be it further
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| 8 | RESOLVED, That the study should include, but not be limited | ||||||
| 9 | to, the following: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) Evidence of past and present racial discrimination | ||||||
| 11 | by the government; | ||||||
| 12 | (2) Annual income and access to capital of those | ||||||
| 13 | seeking to enter the field; and | ||||||
| 14 | (3) The process for obtaining sports wagering permits | ||||||
| 15 | and licensing; and be it further
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| 16 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Gaming Board and the General | ||||||
| 17 | Assembly should use the results of this study to address the | ||||||
| 18 | inequality within the business of legalized sports wagering and | ||||||
| 19 | develop clear guidelines to prevent it; and be it further
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| 20 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 21 | delivered to the Illinois Gaming Board.
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