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LWVAL Action Priority Level III - Issues identified by LWVAL Advocacy Committee and/or State Board or Local Leagues. Monitoring occurs; action dependent on opportunity and available resources.Click a bill to see sponsor(s), summary (including link to full text), League action and justification for that action, and progress of the bill through the legislative process.
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= new bill activity; change from previous week's report such as new progress in the legislature and/or League action. Bill may be one newly added to the report. These updates are in green font.LWVAL has no position on a lottery. It will monitor the progress of lottery legislation and report major changes in bills due to public and member interest in the issue.
LWVAL is monitoring these bills:
HB10 (Constitutional Amendment) - Lottery, Alabama Lottery Corporation, estab., distrib. of revenues for college scholarships, operation of casinos prohib., Sec. 65, Constitution of Alabama of 1901 am'd., const. amend.
Sponsor(s): Representative Ford
Summary/Synopsis: This bill would propose an amendment to Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to establish an Alabama Lottery to fund scholarships, to create an Alabama Lottery Corporation to implement and to regulate the operation of such lottery, and to prohibit the operation of casinos in the state.
The amendment dedicates the net proceeds from the lottery to the Lottery Trust Fund for scholarships for qualifying students (citizens of Alabama who are A/B Honor Roll students) to attend a public two- or four-year college located in Alabama.
The amendment also establishes the Lottery Trust Fund and authorizes the Legislature to pass general laws to implement the amendment by outlining its “duties, powers, authority, and composition of the Alabama Lottery Corporation”.
“Nothing in this amendment affects, prohibits, or limits any activity that was legal at the time this amendment becomes effective including, without limitation, pari-mutuel betting and nonprofit bingo as provided for by specific laws.”
League Action and Justification: Monitor.
LWVAL has no position on a lottery. It will monitor the progress of lottery legislation and report major changes in bills due to public and member interest in the issue.
Bill Progress in Legislature:
02/02/2016: Scheduled for first read and assignment to the House Committee on the Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T).
Summary/Synopsis: This bill would propose an amendment to Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to establish an Alabama Lottery to fund scholarships, to create an Alabama Lottery Corporation to implement and to regulate the operation of such lottery, and to prohibit the operation of casinos in the state.
The amendment dedicates the net proceeds from the lottery to the Lottery Trust Fund for scholarships for qualifying students (citizens of Alabama who are A/B Honor Roll students) to attend a public two- or four-year college located in Alabama.
The amendment also establishes the Lottery Trust Fund and authorizes the Legislature to pass general laws to implement the amendment by outlining its “duties, powers, authority, and composition of the Alabama Lottery Corporation”.
“Nothing in this amendment affects, prohibits, or limits any activity that was legal at the time this amendment becomes effective including, without limitation, pari-mutuel betting and nonprofit bingo as provided for by specific laws.”
League Action and Justification: Monitor.
LWVAL has no position on a lottery. It will monitor the progress of lottery legislation and report major changes in bills due to public and member interest in the issue.
Bill Progress in Legislature:
02/02/2016: Scheduled for first read and assignment to the House Committee on the Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T).
HB13/SB19 (Constitutional Amendment – identical bills) - Lotteries, Legislature authorized to provide by general law, const. amend
Sponsor(s):
HB13: Representative Harper
SB19: Senator McClendon
Summary/Synopsis: These bills propose an amendment to Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to allow the Legislature to provide for a lottery to be operated on behalf and for the benefit of the state under terms and regulations set forth by general law. [Emphasis added]
League Action and Justification: Monitor
LWVAL has no position on a lottery. It will monitor the progress of lottery legislation and report major changes in bills due to public and member interest in the issue.
Bill Progress in Legislature:
HB13
02/02/2016: Scheduled for first read and assignment to the House Committee on the Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T).
02/11/2016: 2nd Read and placed on the calendar; pending 3rd Read and Favorable from ED&T.
04/28/2016: Indefinitely postponed.
SB19
02/02/2016: Scheduled for first read and assignment to the Senate Committee on Tourism and Marketing (T&M).
HB13: Representative Harper
SB19: Senator McClendon
Summary/Synopsis: These bills propose an amendment to Section 65 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to allow the Legislature to provide for a lottery to be operated on behalf and for the benefit of the state under terms and regulations set forth by general law. [Emphasis added]
League Action and Justification: Monitor
LWVAL has no position on a lottery. It will monitor the progress of lottery legislation and report major changes in bills due to public and member interest in the issue.
Bill Progress in Legislature:
HB13
02/02/2016: Scheduled for first read and assignment to the House Committee on the Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T).
02/11/2016: 2nd Read and placed on the calendar; pending 3rd Read and Favorable from ED&T.
04/28/2016: Indefinitely postponed.
SB19
02/02/2016: Scheduled for first read and assignment to the Senate Committee on Tourism and Marketing (T&M).
HB209 (Constitutional Amendment) - Lottery, authorized, Alabama Lottery Corporation, created, distrib. of revenues for college scholarships, Sec. 65, Constitution of Alabama of 1901 am'd., const. amend.
Sponsor(s): Representative Ford
Summary/Synopsis:
This bill does not contain the prohibition against casinos that is found in HB10 which Representative Ford introduced. All other aspects of the two bills are the same.
League Action and Justification: Monitor for information purposes for members and the public.
Bill Progress in the Legislature:
02/11/2016: First Reading and referred to the House Committee on the Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T).
Summary/Synopsis:
This bill does not contain the prohibition against casinos that is found in HB10 which Representative Ford introduced. All other aspects of the two bills are the same.
League Action and Justification: Monitor for information purposes for members and the public.
Bill Progress in the Legislature:
02/11/2016: First Reading and referred to the House Committee on the Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T).
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