Reply Feb. 7, 2021 Legislators including Senate President Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven), Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk), State Senator Will Haskell (D-Westport), State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague), State Representative Josh Elliott (D-Hamden) and State Representative Gary Turco (D-Newington) advocated for the passage of Senate Bill 146, which seeks to expand gaming options in the state. Among the bill's benefits, they said: revenues from internet lottery gaming would allow for continued, consistent funding of PACT CT, the state's debt-free community college program connecting numerous students with debt-free access to higher education. Subscribe "By passing iLottery in the gaming bill we already have in front of us, we will be able to fully fund the PACT program," said Sen. Osten, Senate Chair of the Appropriations Committee and Vice Chair of the Public Safety and Security Committee. "PACT is for all residents in Connecticut to maintain and improve upon their working conditions through educational and certification classes. This program will help our residents down in Eastern Connecticut. Electric Boat is starving for workers, and this program can provide training in our community colleges and get people into these well-paying, local jobs."