A bill to codify using lottery funds to support the state’s Regional Solutions program passed a House committee Tuesday and is on its way to the Ways and Means Committee. The bill formalizes what is already being done, paying for the County’s share of the program that provides Regional Coordinators to help deal with issues of local interest by taking it out of lottery revenue allocations, but nothing was ever put on paper to recognize it. Wasco County Commissioner Steve Kramer says it’s important to get the arrangement in writing. The bill was going to originally sent to the Revenue panel, but instead will be referred to Ways and Means.