House Finance

The committee will come to order. Ms. Culver, please call the roll. Representatives Brooks. Present. Camacho. Here. Garcia. Gonzalez. He should be online shortly. For now, he's excused. Hartsuk. Here. Marshall. Here. Soper. Here. Here. Stuart. Excused. Zokai. Here. Tatone. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. Folks, thanks for sticking around. We've got six bills. First up is Senate Bill 117. Who's feeling lucky? Representative Soper. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I just wanted to inform the committee that I'm subbing today for Representative Ken Degraph. First of all, the odds of winning the lottery is less than 3 drops in 70 Olympic swimming pools. Which is exactly why you shouldn't be buying lotto tickets with credit cards. You should buy it with money you have, not borrowed money that you don't have. Representative Mabry. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, members, until the lottery commission quietly changes rules, buying lottery tickets and scratch tickets on credit was prohibited in Colorado. This pro. This bill puts that prohibition back into statutes. Cash, check, money order, debit, all those still works. What this bill stops is people using credit cards and potentially money they do not have to purchase lottery tickets. Re establishing the…