An Act To Designate a Specialty State Lottery Ticket To Benefit Cancer Education and Awareness
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0781
Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
Sponsors: STRANG BURGESS, SULLIV AN, BEAUDETTE, BEAUDOIN, BEAULIEU, BICKFORD, BLODGETT, BOLAND, CHASE, CLARK, CONNOR, CURTIS, DILL, FLEMINGS, GILES, GREELEY, HASKELL, HOGAN, WALSH INNES, JONES, KNAPP, LEWIN, MAGNAN, MILLER, MITCHELL, NASS, PEOPLES, PERCY, PERRY, PRESCOTT, RANKIN, ROSEN, RUSSELL, SANBORN, STUCKEY, TRINW ARD, TUTTLE, VALENTINO, WAGNER, WEAVER, BARTLETT, BOWMAN, CRAVEN, DAMON, GOODALL, MARRACHE, MILLS
Amends: 8 MRSA §387

. FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2009 
Legislative Document 
No. 781 
H.P.532 
House of Representatives, February 26, 2009 
An Act To Designate a Specialty State Lottery Ticket To Benefit 
Cancer Education and Awareness 
Reference to the Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
11/~ 
/l7.I1l1LC;:f~{ 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
, 
Presented by Representative STRANG BURGESS of Cumberland. 
Cosponsored by Senator SULLIV AN of York and 
Clerk 
Representatives: BEAUDETTE of Biddeford, BEAUDOIN of Biddeford, BEAULIEU of 
Auburn, BICKFORD of Auburn, BLODGETT of Augusta, BOLAND of Sanford, CHASE of 
Wells, CLARK of Millinocket, CONNOR of Kennebunk, CURTIS of Madison, DILL of Cape 
Elizabeth, FLEMINGS of Bar Harbor, GILES of Belfast, GREELEY of Levant, HASKELL of 
Portland, HOGAN of Old Orchard Beach, WALSH INNES of Yarmouth, JONES of Mount 
Vernon, KNAPP of Gorham, LEWIN of Eliot, MAGNAN of Stockton Springs, MILLER of 
Somerville, MITCHELL of the Penobscot Nation, NASS of Acton, PEOPLES of Westbrook, 
PERCY of Phippsburg, PERRY of Calais, PRESCOTT of Topsham, RANKIN of Hiram, 
ROSEN of Bucksport, RUSSELL of Portland, SANBORN of Gorham, STUCKEY of Portland, 
TRINW ARD of Waterville, TUTTLE of Sanford, VALENTINO of Saco, WAGNER of 
Lyman, WEAVER of York, Senators: BARTLETT of Cumberland, BOWMAN of York, 
CRAVEN of Androscoggin, DAMON of Hancock, GOODALL of Sagadahoc, MARRACHE 
of Kennebec, MILLS of Somerset, RA YE. of Washington. 
Printed on rec:ycJ~d paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 8MRSA §374, sulb-§6 is enacted to read: 
6. Cancer education and awareness lottery game. No later than January 30, 2010, 
the commission, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, 
MameCenter for Disease Control and Prevention, shall develop and initiate a cancer 
education and awareness lottery game designed to raise funds for the comprehensive 
cancer prevention and control program established under Title 22, section 1407. The 
commission annually shall provide the net proceeds of this cancer education and 
awareness lottery game to the Comprehensive Cancer Screening, Detection and 
Prevention Fund. The commission shall change the cancer education and awareness 
lottery game ticket periodically throughout the year. 
Sec. 2. 8 MRSA §387, sulb-§I, ~C, as amended by PL 1995, c. 494, §5, is further 
amended to read: 
C. For payment to the General Fund; arui 
Sec. 3. ·8 MRSA §387, sulb-§I, ~, as amended by PL 2003, c. 414, Pt. B, §18 
and affected by c. 614, §9, is further amended to read: 
D. For payment to the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund pursuant to Title 12, section 
103027; and 
Sec. 4. 8 MRSA §387, sub-§I, ~ 
is enacted to read: 
E. For payment to the Comprehensive Cancer Screening, Detection and Prevention 
Fund pursuant to Title 22, section 1407. 
S~RY 
This bill creates a cancer education and awareness lottery ticket to support the Maine 
comprehensive cancer prevention and control program administered by the Department of 
Health and Human Services. 
) 
) 
)