HB502 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip Brown Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Lotteries; Alabama Education Lottery Commission, further provided; Alabama Education Lottery Trust Fund established, administration and distribution of funds, provided; licensing of lottery reatilers, provided; state tax on lottery revenues, provided; education scholarship program, created.

Description

This bill would implement the constitutional amendment proposed in House Bill __ of the 2022 Regular Session, which establishes the Alabama Education Lottery under the regulation of the Alabama Education Lottery Commission.

This bill would further provide for the powers, membership, and duties of the commission.

This bill would create the Enforcement Division within the commission and provide for its powers and duties.

This bill would establish the Alabama Education Lottery Trust Fund and would provide for the administration and distribution of the funds therein.

This bill would provide for the issuance of lottery retailer licenses.

This bill would authorize the commission to assess civil penalties for violations and would provide a process for hearings and appeals of a violation.

This bill would provide for the disposition of proceeds from the Alabama Education Lottery Trust Fund, including establishing scholarship programs to be administered by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, and would provide for the implementation and administration of those programs.

This bill would provide criminal penalties for certain violations.

This bill would also levy a state tax on net lottery revenues and would provide for the distribution of license fees and tax proceeds.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Lotteries