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Committee hears bill to modernize raffle rules, raise ticket and prize limits
Summary
Senate Bill 160 would update raffle ticket rules last changed in 1985, allowing commercial hall staff to sell tickets on behalf of charities and raising per-ticket and prize limits. Lottery staff and hall operators supported modernization; the committee advanced the bill.
Senate Bill 160, introduced by Sen. Sharon Lang at industry request, would update New Hampshire raffle rules that have remained largely unchanged since 1985. The proposal would allow commercial-hall employees to handle sales for designated charitable raffles (aligning raffle practice with other forms of gaming) and raise certain ticket-price and prize limits.
"Raffle tickets have not been changed since 1985," sponsor Lang told the committee, calling the measure a modernization bill requested by industry…
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