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The governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, signed legislation in late July to involve more operators in the state’s planned video lottery market.
The new law makes technical changes to the original Video Gaming Act from July 2009, which was strongly supported by the Illinois Coin Machine Operators Association (ICMOA).
Despite opposition from the Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) Chairman Aaron Jaffe, the new legislation passed in the General Assembly.
Jaffe wanted to broaden the IGB’s powers, giving it the right to deny licences to operators with locations that had been raided for grey-area games, or had ever been investigated for illegal gambling.
But Quinn defended the bill. He claimed it would save existing grey-area poker games in nearly 800 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and American Legion Halls in Illinois.
The new Illinois VLT market will allow independent operators to run games with payouts. Machine startup is scheduled for mid-2011, with a 30 percent tax rate. Vendors, suppliers and locations must obtain licences to participate. Up to five terminals can be installed in the premises of business that have liquor licences for on-site consumption.
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