Bill Text: NH HB485 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

New Hampshire House Bill 485

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizing persons who win the state lottery to remain anonymous.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Judiciary House Journal 3 [HB485 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB485-Introduced.html

HB 485 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION

25-0741

02/09

HOUSE BILL 485

AN ACT authorizing persons who win the state lottery to remain anonymous.

SPONSORS: Rep. Dunn, Rock. 16; Rep. Perez, Rock. 16

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

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ANALYSIS

This bill allows the winner of the state lottery to remain anonymous if they meet certain conditions.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0741

02/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT authorizing persons who win the state lottery to remain anonymous.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Anonymity of Lottery Prize Winner. Amend RSA 91-A by inserting after section 5-a the following new section:

91-A:5-b Anonymity of Lottery Prize Winner.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the name, town or residence, date of prize, and the gross and net amounts of the annual prize payment of a winner which may be released by the lottery commission pursuant to RSA 287-F:10, I-i shall not be released if the winner makes a written request to the lottery commission that they wish to remain anonymous and provided that the winner satisfies at least one of the following conditions:

I. The winner is a victim of domestic violence pursuant to RSA 173-B:1, I;

II. The winner has an active restraining order against another person; or

III. The commissioner of the lottery commission has determined it would be in the best interests of the winner to remain anonymous.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.