1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to compulsive gambling; appropriating money
1.3 	for prevention and treatment services; proposing
1.4 	coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 245.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [245.983] GAMBLING PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
1.7 	GRANT.
1.8 	$500,000 is appropriated annually from the lottery prize
1.9 	fund to the commissioner of human services for a grant to the
1.10 	Southeast Asian Problem Gambling Consortium, with the Lao
1.11 	Assistance Center as the fiscal agent, to provide statewide
1.12 	compulsive gambling prevention and treatment services for Lao,
1.13 	Hmong, Vietnamese, and Cambodian families, adults, and
1.14 	adolescents.  Any unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
1.15 	the first fiscal year of a biennium does not cancel, but is
1.16 	available the second fiscal year of the biennium.