New York S 2613: Requires the state to keep state lottery winners identities anonymous

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S02613 Summary:

BILL NOS02613 

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SPONSORADDABBO

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COSPNSRBAILEY

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Amd §1613, Tax L

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Requires the state to keep state lottery winners' identities anonymous to the general public unless the lottery winner gives their consent.

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BILL NOS02613 

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING

02/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.332

02/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/25/2025PASSED SENATE

02/25/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/25/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING

02/10/20261ST REPORT CAL.332

02/11/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/04/2026PASSED SENATE

03/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/04/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2613

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wager-
 ing

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring the state to keep
 state lottery winners identities anonymous to the general public
 unless the lottery winner gives their consent

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 1613 of the tax law, as amended by
 2 chapter 426 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 3 a. It shall be the duty of the director to require that all prizes
 4 over five thousand dollars in any game be awarded to holders of winning
 5 tickets for that game as provided in this section and section sixteen
 6 hundred fourteen of this article. Within one week after any drawing or
 7 selection of prize winning lottery tickets, the division shall deliver
 8 to the comptroller a certified list of the tickets to which prizes are
 9 awarded and the amount of each such prize. Upon receipt of such certi-
 10 fied list and voucher of the division, moneys sufficient for the payment
 11 of such prizes shall be paid to the division from the lottery prize
 12 account, upon audit and warrant of the comptroller. Moneys for the
 13 payment of lottery prizes shall be deposited by the director as provided
 14 in section sixteen hundred eleven of this article and the withdrawal of
 15 such moneys for the payment of prize winners shall be subject to a check
 16 signed by the director or such officers or employees of the division as
 17 the director may designate. The division shall each month provide the
 18 comptroller with a record of all such withdrawals from the director's
 19 accounts. Payment of prizes shall be made by the division to holders of
 20 the tickets to which prizes are awarded, except that payment of any
 21 prize drawn may be paid to the estate of a deceased prize winner, may be
 22 paid pursuant to a court order granted as a result of a proceeding as
 23 provided in subdivision d of this section, and except that any person

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06879-01-5

 S. 2613 2

 1 pursuant to an appropriate judicial order may be paid the prize to which
 2 the winner is entitled. The division shall not publicly disclose the
 3 name, address or other identifying information of any holder of a
 4 winning ticket or require any winning ticket holder to perform any
 5 public actions in connection with the awarding, payment or collection of
 6 prize moneys unless a holder of a winning ticket gives consent to the
 7 division to do so. The division shall be discharged of all further
 8 liability upon payment of a prize pursuant to this subdivision.
 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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