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Proposed Statewide Amendment No. 1 (Education Lottery)

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> United States > Alabama > Constitutional Amendments

Office

Referendum

Type

Referendum

Filing Deadline

00, 0000 - 12:00pm

Polls Open

October 12, 1999 - 06:00am

Polls Close

October 12, 1999 - 11:00pm

Term Start

00, 0000 - 12:00pm

Term End

00, 0000 - 12:00pm

Turnout

30.72% Total Population

Contributor

User 490

Last Modified

*crickets chirp* April 15, 2005 05:05pm

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Description

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to establish an Alabama Education Lottery, to fund the Alabama HOPE Scholarship Program for colleges and universities, and junior, technical, or community colleges, to fund voluntary pre-kindergarten programs, to fund technology in the public schools; to create an Alabama Education Lottery Corporation to regulate and administer the lottery; to prohibit the operation of casinos; to limit the expenditure of the proceeds to specified education and school purposes; to require the proceeds to be used to increase funding for education and not to take the place of existing education revenues; and to allow the Legislature to implement the Alabama Education Lottery through appropriate general law. (Proposed by Act No. 99-08)