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Assembly Bill A6555A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the state to keep state lottery winners' identities anonymous

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2025-A6555 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1613, Tax L

2025-A6555 - Summary

Requires the state to keep state lottery winners' identities anonymous to the general public if requested by the lottery winner.

2025-A6555 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6555
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Racing and Wagering
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision a of section 1613 of the tax law, as amended by
 chapter 426 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  It  shall  be  the duty of the director to require that all prizes
 over five thousand dollars in any game be awarded to holders of  winning
 tickets  for  that  game as provided in this section and section sixteen
 hundred fourteen of this article. Within one week after any  drawing  or
 selection  of  prize winning lottery tickets, the division shall deliver
 to the comptroller a certified list of the tickets to which  prizes  are
 awarded  and  the amount of each such prize. Upon receipt of such certi-
 fied list and voucher of the division, moneys sufficient for the payment
 of such prizes shall be paid to the  division  from  the  lottery  prize
 account,  upon  audit  and  warrant  of  the comptroller. Moneys for the
 payment of lottery prizes shall be deposited by the director as provided
 in section sixteen hundred eleven of this article and the withdrawal  of
 such moneys for the payment of prize winners shall be subject to a check
 signed  by the director or such officers or employees of the division as
 the director may designate. The division shall each  month  provide  the
 comptroller  with  a  record of all such withdrawals from the director's
 accounts. Payment of prizes shall be made by the division to holders  of
 the  tickets  to  which  prizes  are awarded, except that payment of any
 prize drawn may be paid to the estate of a deceased prize winner, may be
 paid pursuant to a court order granted as a result of  a  proceeding  as
 provided  in  subdivision  d of this section, and except that any person
 pursuant to an appropriate judicial order may be paid the prize to which
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06879-01-5

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2025-A6555A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1613, Tax L

2025-A6555A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state to keep state lottery winners' identities anonymous to the general public if requested by the lottery winner.

2025-A6555A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6555--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, BUTTENSCHON, ROMERO, KAY, BURDICK, SHIM-
   SKY,  McDONALD,  BEEPHAN,  SMULLEN,  HAWLEY,  K. BROWN,  CHANG, TAGUE,
   GLICK, BURROUGHS, KASSAY, LUNSFORD, LEVENBERG, GRIFFIN  --  read  once
   and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Racing and Wagering -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring the state to  keep
   state  lottery  winners' identities anonymous to the general public if
   requested by the lottery winner
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1613  of  the tax law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision a-1 to read as follows:
   A-1. UPON REQUEST OF A HOLDER OF A WINNING TICKET, THE DIVISION  SHALL
 NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSE THE NAME, ADDRESS OR OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
 OF SUCH HOLDER OF A WINNING TICKET OR REQUIRE SUCH WINNING TICKET HOLDER
 TO  PERFORM  ANY PUBLIC ACTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE AWARDING, PAYMENT
 OR COLLECTION OF PRIZE MONEYS. UPON PAYMENT OF PRIZES TO HOLDERS OF  THE
 TICKETS  TO  WHICH  PRIZES  ARE  AWARDED, THE HOLDER OF A WINNING TICKET
 SHALL BE NOTIFIED BY THE DIVISION OF THEIR ABILITY TO MAKE SUCH REQUEST.
 THE DIVISION SHALL NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSE  THE  NAME,  ADDRESS  OR  OTHER
 IDENTIFYING  INFORMATION  OF  A  HOLDER OF A WINNING TICKET OR REQUIRE A
 WINNING TICKET HOLDER TO PERFORM ANY PUBLIC ACTIONS IN  CONNECTION  WITH
 THE  AWARDING,  PAYMENT OR COLLECTION OF PRIZE MONEYS WITHIN THIRTY DAYS
 AFTER SUCH NOTIFICATION HAS BEEN MADE TO THE HOLDER OF A WINNING TICKET.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06879-02-5

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