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SF 1824 Senate Long Description

E Providing a comprehensive approach to the prevention and treatment of compulsive gambling; providing an annual appropriation to the commissioner of human services from parimutuel taxes paid by class B licensees for the compulsive gambling treatment program; increasing the maximum reimbursement by the commissioner for compulsive gambling assessments of persons convicted of theft, embezzlement of public funds or forgery; modifying certain requirements of the compulsive gambling program prevalence study, requiring identification of the prevalence of pathological and problem gambling and the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of problem gamblers and requiring a commissioner report to the legislature by a certain date on study results; requiring the commissioner to develop programs for gambling prevention, intervention and treatment for underserved populations, specifying certain consultation requirements; requiring the commissioner to modify existing standards relating to compulsive gambling providers to allow certain trained individuals to be grandfathered into the current provider schedule and in consultation with compulsive gambling treatment providers to establish a fee structure increasing the rates for providers, requiring a flat rate and notice to the legislature upon establishment; requiring the director of the state lottery to transfer funds from the state lottery prize fund to the general fund and requiring the deposit of contributions for compulsive gambling treatment in the general fund for appropriation to the commissioner of human services for compulsive gambling treatment, for research on the results of treatment, for the state problem gambling help line and public awareness, for compulsive gambling education and training grants and for a grant to reconstruct project turnabout in Granite Falls(ra, ja)