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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6038
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 5233
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E PROMOTION OF LOTTE RY WINNINGS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 12-814 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2021): 2
(a) In each advertisement intended to promote the purchase of lottery 3
tickets issued for games authorized under sections 12-563a and 12-800 4
to 12-818, inclusive, the corporation shall include a prominent and clear 5
statement of the average chances of winning per lottery ticket. 6
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to 7
(1) advertisements in newspapers, magazines, brochures and on posters 8
and (2) television and radio advertisements thirty seconds or longer for 9
one game. 10
(c) On or before October 1, 1999, the corporation shall implement a 11
code of standards for all advertisements and other activities intended to 12
promote the purchase of lottery tickets for games authorized pursuant 13
to this chapter. The code of standards shall include the requirement that 14
no advertisement or promotion shall denigrate the character or conduct 15
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of nonlottery players or praise the character or conduct of lottery 16
players. 17
(d) The corporation shall not publish the photograph of any person 18
who redeems a winning lottery ticket on the corporation's Internet web 19
site without the prior written consent of such person. 20
(e) If a person who redeems a winning lottery ticket requests to be 21
excluded from the list of winners published on the corporation's 22
Internet web site, the corporation shall remove such person's name from 23
such list not later than five days after receiving such request. 24
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 12-814
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to (1) obtain written
consent before publishing the photograph of a person who redeems a
winning lottery ticket on the corporation's Internet web site, and (2)
remove a person's name from the list of winners published on such
Internet web site upon request.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. HAMPTON, 16th Dist.
H.B. 6038