BILL NUMBER:A9968
TITLE OF BILL: An act making an appropriation for the office of alco-
holism and substance abuse services
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To appropriate $4,800,000 to the
office of alcoholism and substance abuse services in order to provide
assistance and counseling to those in need, including for individuals
suffering from problem gambling.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill appropriates
54,800,000 to the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and
makes the moneys payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on
vouchers certified and approved by the commissioner of the office of
alcoholism and substance abuse services in the manner prescribed by law.
JUSTIFICATION: According to Commissioner Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo of
the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), problem
gambling represents a "hidden addiction" whose "devastation to the indi-
vidual can go undetected." OASAS estimates that problem gambling now
affects nearly a million adults and adolescents in New York State. As
access to gambling has grown in New York State, including from the
continued growth of on-line gambling, the need for resources to combat
problem gambling in New York State has also grown.
While OASAS has been expanding its services to combat problem gambling
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9968
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 22, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. HOYT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT making an appropriation for the office of alcoholism and
substance abuse services
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The sum of four million eight hundred thousand dollars
($4,800,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro-
priated to the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services out of
any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund, not otherwise
appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of provid-
ing assistance and counseling to those in need, including those individ-
uals suffering from problem gambling. Such moneys shall be payable on
the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
approved by the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance
abuse services in the manner prescribed by law.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09147-03-9
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