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Senate committee backs raising lottery vending-machine mental-health allocation and recommends EDIF oversight
Summary
The Federal and State Affairs committee recommended increasing the statutory lottery vending-machine allocation for two mental-health programs from $8,000,000 to $16,000,000 and voted to ask Ways and Means to explore sweeping annual lottery transfers into the EDIF back to the general fund to enable legislative oversight.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs committee voted to recommend increasing the statutory allocation of lottery vending-machine funds for mental-health programming from $8,000,000 to $16,000,000 and forwarded the amended lottery budget to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Senator Blue, who carried the amendment, said the 2017 statutory set-aside of $8,000,000 was established when the programs were pilot projects and argued the programs have expanded statewide. "When we passed it, both of those…
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