Florida Senate - 2011                                    SB 1880
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-01381-11                                           20111880__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to state lotteries; creating s.
    3         24.132, F.S.; providing for a special instant scratch
    4         off lottery game titled Ticket for the Cure; providing
    5         for revenues to be used for the purpose of funding
    6         breast cancer research and services for certain breast
    7         cancer victims; providing restrictions for the use of
    8         funds; defining the terms “net revenue” and
    9         “research”; authorizing the Department of the Lottery
   10         to adopt rules; amending s. 24.121, F.S.; providing
   11         for revenues to be equitably apportioned to certain
   12         state universities to be used for the purpose of
   13         funding breast cancer research and services for
   14         certain breast cancer victims; providing an effective
   15         date.
   16  
   17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   18  
   19         Section 1. Section 24.132, Florida Statutes, is created to
   20  read:
   21         24.132 Ticket for the Cure.—
   22         (1) The department shall offer a special instant scratch
   23  off lottery game with the title “Ticket for the Cure.” The game
   24  shall commence on January 1, 2012, and shall be discontinued on
   25  December 31, 2017. During the time that tickets are sold for the
   26  Ticket for the Cure game, the department may not unreasonably
   27  diminish the efforts devoted to marketing any other instant
   28  scratch-off lottery game.
   29         (2)(a) The net revenue from the Ticket for the Cure
   30  scratch-off game shall be allocated pursuant to s. 24.121(5)(f)
   31  to be used for the purpose of funding breast cancer research and
   32  services for low-income, uninsured breast cancer victims. The
   33  funds may not be used for institutional, organizational, or
   34  community-based overhead costs, indirect costs, or levies.
   35         (b) As used in this section, the term:
   36         1. “Net revenue” means the total amount for which tickets
   37  have been sold less the sum of the amount paid out in prizes and
   38  the actual administrative expenses of the department solely
   39  related to the Ticket for the Cure game.
   40         2. “Research” includes, but is not limited to, expenditures
   41  to develop and advance the understanding, techniques, and
   42  modalities effective in the detection, prevention, screening,
   43  and treatment of breast cancer, including clinical trials.
   44         (3) The department may adopt rules to implement this
   45  section.
   46         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of section
   47  24.121, Florida Statutes, is amended, present paragraph (f) is
   48  redesignated as paragraph (g), and a new paragraph (f) is added
   49  to that subsection, to read:
   50         24.121 Allocation of revenues and expenditure of funds for
   51  public education.—
   52         (5)
   53         (b) Except as provided in paragraphs (c), (d), and (e), and
   54  (f), the Legislature shall equitably apportion moneys in the
   55  trust fund among public schools, community colleges, and
   56  universities.
   57         (f) The net revenues received pursuant to s. 24.132 shall
   58  be equitably apportioned to state universities that have medical
   59  research facilities or that are associated with medical research
   60  facilities. The moneys shall be used for the purpose of funding
   61  breast cancer research and services for low-income, uninsured
   62  breast cancer victims pursuant to s. 24.132.
   63         (g)(f) Each school district shall, on a quarterly basis,
   64  make available to the public and distribute, in an easy to
   65  understand format, the expenditures of lottery funds allocated
   66  to the school district.
   67         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.