(1) The Legislative Assembly finds that emotional and behavioral problems related to gambling may impose additional costs on state government and on the state economy, such as additional mental health expenditures, increased law enforcement costs and lost economic output. The use of a portion of the net receipts from video lottery games to pay the costs of preventing and treating emotional and behavioral problems related to gambling promotes the creation of jobs and this state’s economic development by offsetting and treating the negative economic consequences of such behavior.
(2) In each fiscal quarter, commencing with the fiscal quarter beginning July 1, 2001, there is allocated from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to the Problem Gambling Treatment Fund established by ORS 409.435 an amount of not less than one percent of the moneys transferred from the State Lottery Fund to the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund during that fiscal quarter. [1995 c.814 §1; 1999 c.985 §1]
Note: See note under 461.544.
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