Bill Text: NY S00219 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits state lottery winners to remain anonymous to the general public.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A716 [S00219 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00219-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           219
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- 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  permitting  state  lottery
          winners to remain anonymous to the general public
          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.
                                                                   LBD02947-02-7

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     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 where a holder of  a  winning  ticket  provides  a  written
     7  request to the division. 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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