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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6394
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING IN TEREST ON LOTTERY SA LES AGENT
DELINQUENCY ASSESSME NTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 12-569 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2021): 2
(a) (1) If the president of the Connecticut Lottery Corporation 3
determines that any lottery sales agent has breached such agent's 4
fiduciary responsibility to the corporation in that the account of such 5
lottery sales agent with respect to moneys received from the sale of 6
lottery tickets has become delinquent in accordance with regulations 7
adopted [as provided in] under section 12-568a, the president shall 8
notify the commissioner of the breach of fiduciary duty and the 9
commissioner shall impose a delinquency assessment upon such 10
account equal to ten per cent of the amount due or ten dollars, 11
whichever amount is greater, plus simple interest at the rate of one and 12
one-half per cent of such amount for each month or fraction of a month 13
from the date such amount is due to the date of payment. 14
(2) A lottery sales agent whose account was delinquent prior to July 15 Raised Bill No. 6394
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1, 2021, and whose delinquency a ssessment was subject to 16
compounding interest on June 30, 2021, may apply to the commissioner 17
on or after July 1, 2021, for a hardship waiver to reduce the amount of 18
interest delinquent, outstanding and payable to an amount based on 19
simple interest. 20
(3) Subject to the provisions of section 12-3a, the commissioner may 21
waive all or part of the penalties provided under this subsection when 22
it is proven to the commissioner's satisfaction that the failure to pay such 23
moneys to the state within the time allowed was due to reasonable cause 24
and was not intentional or due to neglect. 25
(4) Any such delinquent lottery sales agent shall be notified of such 26
delinquency assessment and shall be afforded an opportunity to contest 27
the validity and amount of such assessment before the commissioner 28
who may conduct such hearing. Upon request of the president of the 29
Connecticut Lottery Corporation, the commissioner may prepare and 30
sign a warrant directed to any state marshal, constable or any collection 31
agent employed by the Connecticut Lottery Corporation for distraint 32
upon any property of such delinquent lottery sales agent within the 33
state, whether personal or real property. An itemized bill shall be 34
attached to the warrant certified by the commissioner as a true 35
statement of the amount due from such lottery sales agent. Such warrant 36
shall have the same force and effect as an execution issued in accordance 37
with chapter 906. Such warrant shall be levied on any real, personal, 38
tangible or intangible property of such agent and sale made pursuant to 39
such warrant in the same manner and with the same force and effect as 40
a levy and sale pursuant to an execution. 41
(b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with 42
chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this section. 43
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 12-569
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Statement of Purpose:
To (1) specify that simple interest is charged on delinquency
assessments of lottery sales agents, and (2) allow an agent whose
delinquency assessment remains due and was subject to compounding
interest to request a hardship waiver from the Commissioner of
Consumer Protection to recalculate the interest owed.
[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.]