State Lottery To Fund Public Education Moves Forward - Honolulu Civil Beat
State Lottery To Fund Public Education Moves Forward
The bill would create a commission to plan for a lottery to help pay for the university and public schools. Reading time: 4 minutes.
Winning final passage may be a long shot, but the Senate Education Committee tentatively approved a plan Wednesday to create a commission to stand up a state lottery to help fund public education in Hawaii.
The lottery could be operating as early as Jan. 1, 2023, but Senate Bill 816 leaves it up to the five-member commission to make rules and determine exactly how the game would be run.