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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 404H.P. 258House of Representatives, February 4, 2025
An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner
Identities
Reference to the Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative DILL of Old Town. Page 1 - 132LR0947(01)
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2 is enacted to read:
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4 The identity of a person awarded a prize of $500,000 or more is confidential unless the
5 person awarded the prize provides written authorization to the bureau allowing the
6 disclosure of that person's identity. The bureau may disclose the identity of the person to
7 another state agency solely for purposes authorized under this chapter, and that state agency
8 is prohibited from further disclosing the person's identity.
9 Information designated as confidential under this section is not a public record as
10 defined in Title 1, section 402, subsection 3.
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12 This bill provides that the identity of a person awarded a lottery prize of $500,000 or
13 more is confidential unless the person awarded the prize provides written authorization to
14 the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages
15 and Lottery Operations allowing the disclosure of that person's identity. The bill authorizes
16 the bureau to disclose the identity of the person to another state agency for purposes
17 authorized under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 8, chapter 14-A and the bill prohibits
18 that state agency from further disclosing the person's identity.
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