California State Lottery: revenue allocations: Office of Problem Gambling.

(1) The California State Lottery Act of 1984, enacted by initiative, 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 requires the revenues of the state lottery to be allocated, in specified percentages, to public education, prizes, and to pay allowable expenses of the lottery. Existing law modifies the specified percentages of lottery revenues allocated to these purposes on the occurrence of certain events. The act establishes the State Lottery Fund as a continuously appropriated fund for carrying out the purposes of the act. Existing law establishes the Office of Problem Gambling and requires the office to develop gambling disorder prevention and treatment programs that consist of certain enumerated components. This bill would require an unspecified percentage of the amount of lottery revenues allocated to pay allowable expenses of the lottery to instead be allocated to the Office of Problem Gambling to support gambling disorder prevention and treatment programs. By changing the purposes for which the funds of a continuously appropriated fund may be appropriated, the bill would make an appropriation. (2) The California State Lottery Act of 1984 provides that none of its provisions may 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.