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Bill would require problem-gambling hotline number on future Oregon lottery billboards
Summary
A billmaker told the House Commerce Committee that Senate Bill 914A would add the problem-gambling helpline number to the statutorily prescribed language on new Oregon lottery billboards; the change would be prospective and would not require removal of existing billboards.
Senator Sarah Gelser Blouin introduced Senate Bill 914A on April 22, telling the House Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection that the measure “is a very simple bill” that would require future Oregon Lottery billboards to include the problem-gambling helpline telephone number.
The bill grew from a conversation, Gelser Blouin said, about why existing law prescribes the exact language that must appear on lottery billboards but does not require the helpline number. “Nobody has to take down any billboards that already exist,” she said, describing…
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