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Bill would lift cap on lottery funds for county fair accounts, proponents say it would multiply per-fair funding
Summary
House Bill 2145 (dash 1) would remove the $1,530,000 annual cap on the county fair account and change the statutory lottery allocation; backers say the change would raise per-fair annual checks from about $53,000 to roughly $250,000.
A House committee hearing on Wednesday considered House Bill 2145 with the dash 1 amendment, a measure that would remove an outdated $1,530,000 annual cap on the county fair account and adjust statutory allocations from the Oregon State Lottery.
Representative Anna Scharf, one of the bill’s proponents, told the House Committee on Economic Development, Small Business, and Trade that the county fair account — established in 1969 — currently receives 1% of net lottery proceeds but has been limited by a…
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