Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-120

GOV 120

Lottery Operation Adjustments

Messrs. Feeney and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended by striking out section 8 and inserting in place thereof the following sections: -

"SECTION ___.The second paragraph of section 27 of said chapter 10, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following 2 sentences:- No member of the commission or covered state employee or member of their immediate family residing in the same household in the principal place of abode of any member of the commission or covered state employee, or legal entity that includes such a person as an officer, director, member, partner, owner, investor or an individual that has a financial interest in the entity, unless said interest is in a publicly traded company by ownership of shares of less than 10 per cent of all issued stock, shall be issued a license to sell lottery tickets. For the purposes of this paragraph, “covered state employee” shall mean a state employee, as defined in section 1 of chapter 268A, or a special state employee, as defined in section 1 of chapter 268A, of the commission, and “immediate family” shall have the same meaning as defined in section 1 of chapter 268A.

SECTION ___. Section 26 of said chapter 10, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The state treasurer shall, subject to the approval of the governor, appoint a director of the state lottery, hereinafter called the director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the state treasurer, shall devote their entire time and attention to the duties of the office and to such official duties specified by the state treasurer subject to the approval of the governor, and shall receive such salary as the commission may determine.

SECTION ___. Said section 26 of said chapter 10, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by striking out, in lines 39 to 40, the words “, provided, however, that no person shall be assigned more than one license to sell lottery tickets or shares”.

SECTION ___. Section 27A of said chapter 10, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 31 to 33, inclusive, the words “in a newspaper of general circulation in the area including the municipality where said Keno licensee will operate” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- on the commission’s website.”