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DEL.ICIO.USCommittee endorses limits on lottery spending
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Senate Resolution 125, which would limit lottery spending to the HOPE scholarship and grant program and to pre-k, was unanimously passed out of the Higher Education Committee today.
The resolution will be voted on next by the full Senate.
Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to make the change, which requires amending the state Constitution, to protect funding for HOPE and pre-k. The resolution needs two-thirds approval in the General Assembly in order to be put before voters this year.
“This makes certain nobody in the future bothers those funds,” Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland), chairman of the Higher Education Committee, said.
Currently, lottery funds also can be spent on technology and capital projects for grades kindergarten through 12, but that hasn’t happened for several years. The AJC disclosed in 2003 that $1.8 billion in lottery money had gone to questionable purchases, such as security fences, metal detectors and renovating historic buildings.
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