Bill Text: HI SCR155 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Lottery Study

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-18 - (H) Referred to JUD, LMG, FIN, referral sheet 61 [SCR155 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-SCR155-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	155
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING A STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A POWERBALL STATE LOTTERY.

 

 

     WHEREAS, Powerball is an American lottery game sold in lotteries in member states across the country as a shared jackpot pool game; and

 

     WHEREAS, Powerball is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association, a non-profit organization entirely owned and operated by member lotteries and based in Des Moines, Iowa; and

 

     WHEREAS, Powerball currently is available in the District of Columbia, the United States Virgin Islands, and forty-two states:  Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin; and

 

     WHEREAS, Mega Millions is also a multistate lottery game played in the District of Columbia and forty-one participating states:  Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii is presently suffering from a severe economic downturn resulting in drastically declining revenues, particularly in light of the Pacific tsunami disaster in Japan and its projected effects on tourism; and

 

     WHEREAS, the National Conference of State Legislatures reports that state lotteries sold $53,700,000,000 worth of tickets in fiscal year 2006, which was equal to three percent of the total state revenue generated by all of the participating states during that year; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State needs an alternative means to generate revenue in addition to taxes and should give due consideration to the potential use of lotteries as a source of revenue generation, as a majority of other states have done; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2011, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Legislative Reference Bureau is requested to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing a Powerball, Mega Millions lottery, or both in the State; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Reference Bureau report findings and recommendations, including proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2012; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Lottery Study