1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; appropriating money for compulsive gambling.
1.3 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.4 	Section 1. PROBLEM GAMBLING APPROPRIATION.
 1.5 	$225,000 in fiscal year 2012 and $225,000 in fiscal year 2013 are appropriated from 
1.6 	the lottery prize fund to the Gambling Control Board for a grant to the state affiliate 
1.7 	recognized by the National Council on Problem Gambling. The affiliate must provide 
1.8 	services to increase public awareness of problem gambling, education and training 
1.9 	for individuals and organizations providing treatment services to problem gamblers 
1.10 	and their families, and research relating to problem gambling. These services must be 
1.11 	complimentary to and not duplicative of the services provided through the problem 
1.12 	gambling program administered by the commissioner of human services. These are 
1.13 	onetime appropriations.