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I might also call to your attention, you are probably
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familiar, however, with the fact, that in the last
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Legislatvire for the first time there was a provision
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for having the Constitutional amendment to take this
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provision, to permit a state-operated lottery to be
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enacted by the Legislature. It passed the House for
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the first time. Over a period of years it kept getting
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more and more popular until it finally passed the House,
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but this was just a day before it adjourned and did not
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get to any action before the Senate. But it shows
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that the legislative support has grown by leaps and
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bounds. It wasn't too long ago where a vote against the
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lottery was overwhelming. Then the year before last it
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lost by 20 votes. Then during this year it actually
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passed. The Senate did not act on it.
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THE CHAIRMAN: One final question. Assuming
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that the Committee thought it desirable to have the
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Constitution say something about a lottery but would
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in effect say that a lottery could be -- I aw not prejudg-
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ing this in any way parenthetically -- but that a lottery
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could be permitted if the General Assembly went along
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