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Committee adopts amendment to ban resale of winning lottery tickets and clarifies taxation, sends HB 3115 to the floor
Summary
The House Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee adopted a dash-4 amendment to House Bill 3115 on March 6, which bars resale of certain winning lottery tickets and exempts prize winners’ name and address from disclosure absent written authorization.
House Bill 3115 prohibits selling, purchasing or claiming for compensation a winning lottery ticket or a share of a winning lottery ticket if the Oregon State Lottery Commission does not allow a retailer to pay that prize. The bill would take effect 90 days after adjournment, sine die. The dash-4 amendment considered by the committee requires that a prize winner’s name and address be exempt from disclosure unless the prize winner provides written authorization and addresses state tax treatment of purchase-price deductions.
Andrew Hickerson, chief of staff to Representative John Lively, summarized the bill and amendment for the committee, explaining that the amendment clarifies anonymity protections and the state income tax treatment: the amendment allows an amount that a purchaser paid for a winning ticket to be deducted for federal tax purposes but requires that amount to be added back for Oregon taxable income.
The committee voted to adopt the dash-4 amendment without discussion. Roll-call votes on adoption recorded multiple affirmative votes; subsequent committee action assigned Representative Lively to carry the bill on the House floor. The committee closed the work session on HB 3115 after the motion passed.
Committee records show the committee’s intent to protect prize-winner anonymity unless the winner consents to disclosure and to harmonize Oregon taxable income with a federal deduction treatment for purchase prices of improperly purchased tickets.
No public testimony was recorded during the work session on HB 3115; the Department of Revenue was present but had no additional comment in committee.
