| 1 | 1 | | SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2627 |
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| 2 | 2 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 3 | 3 | | _______________ |
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| 4 | 4 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 5 | 5 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 6 | 6 | | _______________ |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE, April 1, 2024. |
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| 8 | 8 | | The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to whom was |
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| 9 | 9 | | referred the petitions (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 169) of Paul R. Feeney, Deborah B. |
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| 10 | 10 | | Goldberg, Treasurer and Receiver General and Lindsay N. Sabadosa for legislation to modernize |
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| 11 | 11 | | lottery operations; and (accompanied by bill, House, No. 256) of Daniel Cahill and Angelo J. |
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| 12 | 12 | | Puppolo, Jr. relative to lottery operations, report the accompanying bill (Senate, No.2627). |
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| 13 | 13 | | For the committee, |
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| 14 | 14 | | John J. Cronin 1 of 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | FILED ON: 2/6/2024 |
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| 16 | 16 | | SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2627 |
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| 17 | 17 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 18 | 18 | | _______________ |
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| 19 | 19 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 20 | 20 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 21 | 21 | | _______________ |
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| 22 | 22 | | An Act modernizing lottery operations. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 24 | 24 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 25 | 25 | | 1 SECTION 1. Section 31 of chapter 10 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 |
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| 26 | 26 | | 2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, in line 3, after the words “any member or |
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| 27 | 27 | | 3employee of the commission" the following words:- except as authorized by the director for |
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| 28 | 28 | | 4investigative purposes, |
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| 29 | 29 | | 5 SECTION 2. Section 27A of chapter 10 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby |
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| 30 | 30 | | 6amended by striking out, in lines 31 through 33, the words “in a newspaper of general circulation |
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| 31 | 31 | | 7in the area including the municipality where said Keno licensee will operate” and inserting in |
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| 32 | 32 | | 8place thereof the following words:- on the commission’s website |
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| 33 | 33 | | 9 SECTION 3. Section 26 of chapter 10 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby |
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| 34 | 34 | | 10amended by striking out the words “, provided, however that no person shall be assigned more |
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| 35 | 35 | | 11than one license to sell lottery tickets or shares”. |
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| 36 | 36 | | 12 SECTION 4. Section 27 of said chapter 10, as so appearing, is hereby amended by |
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| 37 | 37 | | 13striking out the sentence “No federal employee and no state, county or municipal employee, or 2 of 2 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 14member of the immediate family, as defined in section one of chapter two hundred sixty-eight A, |
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| 39 | 39 | | 15shall sell or be issued a license to sell lottery tickets.” and inserting in place thereof the following |
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| 40 | 40 | | 16sentence:- No member or employee of the commission or any person residing in the same |
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| 41 | 41 | | 17household in the principal place of abode of any member or employee of the commission, or |
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| 42 | 42 | | 18legal entity that includes such a person as an officer, director, member, partner, owner, investor |
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| 43 | 43 | | 19or an individual that has a financial interest in the entity unless said interest is in a publicly |
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| 44 | 44 | | 20traded company by ownership of shares of less than ten percent of all issued stock, shall be |
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| 45 | 45 | | 21issued a license to sell lottery tickets. |
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