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Committee approves amendment requiring court filing to seal lottery winner identity in HB 485
Summary
A committee of conference amended House Bill 485 to require a superior court filing for a lottery winner to keep their identity confidential and removed a sentence giving the lottery commissioner sole discretion; members agreed to place the change on consent.
A Committee of Conference on House Bill 485 agreed to replace the House’s subsection 3 with language requiring a superior court filing if a lottery winner seeks to keep their identity confidential, and to remove the bill’s final sentence that appeared to grant the lottery commissioner sole discretion to seal a winner’s name.
The change was circulated to committee members and discussed before members approved the revised language by voice consensus. The committee directed staff at the Office of Legislative Services (OLS)…
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