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Creates the Family Amusement Wagering Prohibition Act. Prohibits a family amusement establishment from facilitating wagering on amusement games. Prohibits a family amusement establishment from engaging in advertising that promotes wagering on amusement games. Provides that nothing in the Act shall prohibit a family amusement establishment from offering: (1) an amusement game that entitles or enables a single player to receive a coupon or a point that may only be redeemed onsite for merchandise and the coupon or point has no value other than for redemption onsite for merchandise; or (2) an amusement game that allows a single player to manipulate a claw or similar device within an enclosure that entitles or enables a person to receive merchandise directly from the amusement game. Defines terms. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits gambling, and is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, when he or she knowingly facilitates wagering on amusement games or knowingly engages in advertising that promotes wagering on amusement games in violation of the Family Amusement Wagering Prohibition Act.

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Dan Didech (D)*,  Dee Avelar (D),  Harry Benton (D),  Diane Blair-Sherlock (D),  Kelly Burke (D),  Kelly Cassidy (D),  Sharon Chung (D),  Terra Costa Howard (D),  Margaret Croke (D),  Eva-Dina Delgado (D),  Laura Faver Dias (D),  Jen Gong-Gershowitz (D),  Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar (D),  Will Guzzardi (D),  Matt Hanson (D),  Sonya Harper (D),  Barbara Hernandez (D),  Norma Hernandez (D),  Gregg Johnson (D),  Tracy Katz Muhl (D),  Jeff Keicher (R),  Michael Kelly (D),  Joyce Mason (D),  Rita Mayfield (D),  Anna Moeller (D),  Bob Morgan (D),  Michelle Mussman (D),  Suzanne Ness (D),  Kevin Olickal (D),  Abdelnasser Rashid (D),  Bob Rita (D),  Sue Scherer (D),  Anne Stava-Murray (D),  Katie Stuart (D),  Nabeela Syed (D),  Maurice West (D),  Ann Williams (D),  Janet Yang Rohr (D), 

Session Sine Die (on 01/07/2025)

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