GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 2
SENATE BILL 402
State and Local Government Committee Substitute Adopted 4/16/25
Short Title: Allow Lottery Winners To Be Confidential. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
March 25, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ALLOW CERT AIN LOTTERY WINNERS TO CHOOSE TO TREAT A S 2
CONFIDENTIAL THEIR IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 18C-132 reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 18C-132. Procedures for drawings and claiming prizes; payment of prizes; protection 6
of information concerning certain prize winners. 7
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(h) The right of any person to a prize shall not be assignable. Payment of any prize may 9
be paid to a person designated pursuant to a court order. Any prize or portion of a prize remaining 10
unpaid at the death of a prize winner shall be paid to the estate of the deceased prize winner or 11
to the trustee of a trust established by the prize winner or as designated in the deceased prize 12
winner's will, living trust, or other prepared legal instrument if a copy of the trust document or 13
instrument has been filed with the Director, and no written notice of revocation has been received 14
by the Director prior to the prize winner's death. 15
(i) No ticket or share in a lottery game shall be purchased by, and no prize shall be paid 16
to, a member of the Commission, the Director, or employee of the Commission, or to any spouse, 17
parent, or child living in the same household as a person disqualified by this subsection. 18
(j) No prize shall be paid to a person under the age of 18. 19
(j1) If requested by the prize winner, the identity identifying information of a prize winner 20
of fifty five million dollars ($50,000,000) ($5,000,000) or more shall be treated as confidential 21
information under G.S. 132-1.2(8) until 90 days after the winner has claimed the prize.except to 22
the extent required to do the following: 23
(1) Notify the North Carolina Department of Revenue to comply with subsection 24
(l) of this section. 25
(2) Notify the Internal Revenue Service. 26
(3) Notify the tax authorities of the state of residence of the prize winner. 27
(4) Comply with the debt set-off program under G.S. 18C-134 and Chapter 105A 28
of the General Statutes. 29
(5) Comply with Article 31 of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes concerning 30
supplemental proceedings against a judgment debtor. 31
(6) Comply with a court order. 32
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SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 34