MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After spending roughly eleven hours debating Gov. Robert Bentley’s lottery proposal and working late into the night on Thursday, pro-lottery House members finally rallied enough support for the legislation to pass.
The bill will send the first $100 million of lottery revenue to Medicaid, followed by a 90-10 split of the remaining revenue between the General Fund Budget and Education Budget. Additionally, 1 percent of the 90 percent General Fund allocation will be earmarked for rural fire departments.
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The bill now moves back to the Senate, which must approve of the changes before a constitutional amendment enabling a state-sponsored lottery goes to a statewide vote.
Here’s how each member of the Alabama House voted on the lottery.
YES
Alexander
Baker
Bandy
Beckman
Beech
Black
Blackshear
Boothe
Boyd
Bracy
Brown
Buskey
Butler
Chesteen
Clarke
Clouse
Coleman
Daniels
Davis
Drummond
England
Faust
Fincher
Ford
Forte
Givan
Greer
Grimsley
Hall
Harbison
Harper
Hill
Howard
Hurst
Jackson
Ron Johnson
Knight
Lawrence
Ledbetter
Lindsey
Martin
McCampbell
McClammy
Speaker McCutcheon
Melton
Millican
Mary Moore
Morrow
Nordgren
Patterson
Pettus
Poole
Rich
Robinson
Rogers
Rowe
Scott
Sells
Sessions
Todd
Warren
Weaver
Wilcox
Wood
NO
Ainsworth
Ball
Carns
Collins
Crawford
Drake
Farley
Faulkner
Fridy
Garrett
Gaston
Hanes
Henry
Mike Holmes
Ingram
Ken Johnson
Jones
Lee
McMillan
Mooney
Barry Moore
Polizos
Pringle
Sanderford
Shedd
Standridge
Treadaway
Tuggle
Wadsworth
Isaac
Whorton
Ritchie
Whorton
Williams (JD)
Williams (JW)
Phil Williams
Wingo
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