LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Attorney General Dustin McDaniel rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to create a state-run lottery to fund college scholarships.  He approved another proposed ballot measure that would prohibit unmarried couples living together from fostering and adopting children.

  Lt. Gov. Bill Halter proposed the lottery measure rejected by McDaniel.  Halter said it would fund $100 million annually in college scholarships.

  The conservative Arkansas Family Council filed the initiated act regarding foster and adoptive parents.  It would effectively reinstate a state ban on gay foster parents that was overturned by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

  The attorney general must approve the language of ballot measures before supporters can begin collecting signatures on petitions to place them on the ballot in November 2008.

  Placing a constitutional amendment on the ballot requires collecting signatures of registered voters equal to 10 percent of the ballots cast in the governor's election last year -- about 78,000 signatures.  An initiated act would require a number of registered voters' signatures equal to 8 percent of the votes cast, or around 62,000 signatures.