Amendment ID: S2844-42-R1

Redraft Amendment 42

Compulsive Gaming Direct Assistance Program Reports

Messrs. Keenan, O'Connor, Montigny, Tarr and Timilty move that the proposed new text be amended by striking out section 5 and inserting in place thereof the following section:- 

Section 5. The secretary of health and human services shall expend money in the fund to administer a compulsive gambling assistance program to provide counselling, treatment, referrals and indirect financial recovery to residents with a gambling addiction. Participants in the program shall be required to self-exclude from gambling under chapters 23K and 23N and attend treatment or other counselling to be eligible for indirect financial recovery; provided, however, that financial recovery shall not exceed $5,000 per participant.

Annually, not later than January 1, the secretary shall report on activities of the fund including, but not limited to: (i) the total expenditure of the fund; (ii) the number of people receiving assistance from the fund, delineated by the number of individuals receiving counselling, treatment, referrals and indirect financial recovery; (iii) the average amount of indirect financial recovery funds distributed to each individual; (iv) the purposes for which indirect financial recovery payments were made; and (v) the zip codes associated with the domiciles, if any, of the people who received assistance from the fund. The report shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means, the joint committee on public health and the joint committee on mental health, substance use and recovery.”