HB169 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 1, 2022

Summary

Primary Sponsor: John W. Rogers
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Alabama lottery, Alabama Lottery Corporation established, distribution of proceeds, duties and power terminated after a specified time, Section 65, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, am'd, const. amd.
Description: Under existing law, lotteries and gift enterprises are prohibited.
This bill would propose an amendment to Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to establish an Alabama Lottery to fund education and general fund programs; to create an Alabama Lottery Corporation; to provide that lottery proceeds will not supplant or replace existing education revenues; to establish the Lottery Trust Fund; to permit the Legislature to pass general laws to implement the amendment; and to terminate the lottery and the Alabama Lottery Corporation after a specified period of time.
Subjects: Lotteries

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Economic Development and Tourism