SB 891

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) The California State Lottery Act of 1984, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 6, 1984, statewide general election, authorizes a California State Lottery and provides for its operation and administration by the California State Lottery Commission and the Director of the California State Lottery, with certain limitations. The act establishes the State Lottery Fund as a continuously appropriated fund for carrying out the purposes of the act. The act requires that revenues of the California State Lottery be allocated so as to maximize the amount of funding allocated to public education. This bill would express legislative findings and declarations that the California State Lottery failed to provide certain funding to public education that was required by law, and would express legislative intent to appropriate that funding. This bill would amend the California State Lottery Act to specify that revenues of the California State Lottery are to be allocated so as to ensure that the relationship between increases in the net revenue of the California State Lottery and increases in funding allocated to public education is directly proportional. The bill would appropriate $36,000,000 from the State Lottery Fund to the Controller for allocation to public education in order to cover the shortfall in allocations from the State Lottery Fund for this purpose for the 2017–18 fiscal year. (2) The California State Lottery Act of 1984 provides that its provisions may not be changed except to further its purpose by a bill passed by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and signed by the Governor. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes of the act.