Bill Text: NJ A3759 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits internet sale of lottery tickets by State Lottery Commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-22 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3759 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3759-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3759

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 22, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits internet sale of lottery tickets by State Lottery Commission.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act prohibiting the State Lottery Commission from selling lottery tickets via the internet and supplementing Title 5 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, no lottery or type of lottery or lottery game shall be permitted to be sold via the internet by the State Lottery Commission, any entity of the State Lottery Commission, or any entity contracted by the State Lottery Commission.

     b.  The State Lottery Commission shall not name itself, any entity of the State Lottery Commission, or any entity contracted by the State Lottery Commission as a lottery sales agent pursuant to the "State Lottery Law," P.L.1970, c.13 (C.5:9-1 et seq.).

     c.  Nothing in this act shall prohibit the sale of lottery tickets via the internet by a duly licensed courier service as set forth in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.11 (C.5:9-14.3).

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     On September 19, 2022, a rule proposal was published by the State Lottery Commission to allow the Division of State Lottery to directly sell tickets to consumers in New Jersey through its Internet website and mobile applications.  This proposal has been adopted and internet sales by the State Lottery Commission are scheduled to begin in the fall of 2024.

     This bill prohibits the State Lottery Commission, any entity of the State Lottery Commission, or any entity contracted by the State Lottery Commission from directly selling lottery tickets via the Internet.  This bill does not affect the rights of registered courier services from selling lottery tickets via the internet.