Opinion No. (2005)

You have each requested our opinion concerning whether LB 332, as originally introduced or as amended by pending AM0795 or AM1338, violates Neb. Const. art. III, § 24. The specific question raised is whether the additional State Lottery fund distributions to the Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Fund proposed under the bill or these amendments are contrary to the distribution scheme established in Neb. Const. art. III, § 24, by the recent passage of Amendment 4. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the additional distributions proposed are unconstitutional because they are…