Under existing law, lotteries and gift enterprises are prohibited by Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.
This bill proposes an amendment to Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to establish an Alabama Lottery and the Alabama Lottery Corporation; to establish the Alabama Education Legacy Fund; to provide for distributions from the Alabama Education Legacy Fund for the costs associated with the Alabama Lottery, Pre-K program, career technical scholarships, public schools, and to the State General Fund; to provide for a bonding authority to issue bonds for Medicaid purposes; to authorize and regulate certain electronic lotteries by the entities currently licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering at the four existing racetracks in Mobile County, Macon County, the City of Birmingham in Jefferson County, and Greene County; to levy a state gross receipts tax and a local gross receipts tax on gaming revenue of the racetracks; to levy a tax on vendors of electronic lottery equipment; to provide for the disposition of state gaming tax proceeds to the State General Fund for Medicaid purposes; to create the Alabama Lottery Commission to implement, regulate, and administer electronic lotteries and regulate and supervise the Alabama Lottery and Alabama Lottery Corporation; to authorize and instruct the Governor to negotiate a compact for gaming with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians; to require the Legislature to pass general laws to implement the amendment; and to require that the amendment may not be construed to allow casino games conducted by live human dealers.
Further Consideration
Marsh motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Rules Committee Petition To Cease Debate Lost Roll Call 18
McClendon second Substitute Offered
McClendon first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Carried Over
Marsh motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over
***Per Committee Chairman, the vote was corrected to a 7 yeas, 1 nay vote
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Tourism and Marketing
Source: Alabama Legislature