Session Laws

RESOLVED, That the executive office of human services is hereby authorized and directed to make an investigation and study relative to the feasibility of establishing a program for the treatment and rehabilitation of complusive gamblers. Such department shall address the following issues: the exact services to be provided by such a program and the attendant cost; a recommendation for appropriate providers; a recommendation of the agency or agencies best suited to administer said program; and the advisability of using lottery proceeds to fund such a program, specifically making recommendations on the use of unclaimed prize money versus the use of other sources of funds and such other related matters. Said department shall report to the general court the results of its investigation and study, and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry its recommendations into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the house of representatives who shall transmit copies of said report to the joint committee on human services and elderly affairs, and to the house and senate committee on ways and means on or before May first, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.