For the second straight year, Illinois will stop paying lottery winners starting July 1 — a direct casualty of the ongoing budget impasse, according to Comptroller Leslie Munger.
“Existing spending for schools, 911 call centers, domestic violence shelters, federally funded social and human services and higher education (also) will stop next month without new legislation,” Munger said in a statement.
In 2015, the state stopped paying people who won more than $600 during the first year of state operations with no budget. The drought lasted until Dec. 7, when Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation appropriating $1 billion for payouts, which resumed about a week later.
By July, however, that appropriation will end, and Illinois will have to go through the same legislative process before it can issue anything more than an IOU for $23 billion in total spending it appropriated piecemeal in 2015.
. I guess $3 Million just wasn't enough 
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