Kentucky Senate Bill 48 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-07 - to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Amend KRS 222.005 to define "pathological gambling" and "problem gambling"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Problem and Pathological Gamblers Awareness and Treatment Program; direct the use of funds and limit annual administrative costs to $200,000; establish the Gamblers Awareness and Treatment Program Advisory Council; establish the council's membership and responsibilities; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations in collaboration with the council; establish a funding and application process, certify disbursement of funds, and require reports annually; assign responsibilities to the director of the Division of Behavioral Health; amend KRS 222.001 and 222.003 to conform; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to problem, compulsive, or pathological gambling and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. C.B. Embry [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-07	Senate	to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2016-01-06	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB48.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB48/bill.doc
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB48/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB48/FN.pdf