Scholarship funds raised by Arkansas’ lottery fell by $9 million in the past fiscal year to $72.4 million, even though ticket sales barely declined. In this photo taken July 1, 2014, Sen. Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana, attends a meeting of the Senate Committee on State Agencies… Fiscal 2015 is the third- consecutive year that the lottery’s revenue and net proceeds raised for college scholarships have declined.