NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A3467
SPONSOR: Pretlow TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring security devices
on lottery machines to prevent use by minors
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to further ensure that people who buy
lottery tickets are of the appropriate age.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Amends section 1610 of the tax law to help ensure that underaged people
are not allowed to purchase lottery tickets.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, self-serve lottery vending machines are allowed under the
law. However, in some cases, the machines are not closely supervised and
underaged people are buying lottery tickets illegally. This bill would
require the installation and maintenance of a lockout device on all
lottery vending machines, requiring the merchant to activate the lottery
machine before each purchase. In doing so, the merchant will be able to
ascertain whether the customer is of legal age to play the lottery.
Vending machines that dispense lottery tickets are sometimes not care-
fully watched to prevent underage players. This bill would require that
the person selling the lottery tickets activate the machine in Order for
a person to buy tickets from the vending machine.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2022 01/05/22 A3769 referred to ways and means
2019-2020 A4597 referred to"ways& Means
2017/2018 A1822 referred to ways & means
2015-2016 A2653 referred to ways& means
2013-14 A3711 referred to ways & means
S5099 referred to Racing, Gaming
2009-10 S.3029;
2007-08, S.1333;
2005-06, S.915;
2003-04, S.1775;
2001-02, S.3293;
1999-00, S.2021;
1997-98, S.3770, A.5871
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 90 day after it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3467
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring security devices
on lottery machines to prevent use by minors
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 1610 of the tax law, as added by
2 chapter 92 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as follows:
3 a. No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of eighteen
4 years, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase of a ticket
5 for the purpose of making a gift by a person eighteen years of age or
6 older to a person less than that age. Any licensee or the employee or
7 agent of any licensee who sells or offers to sell a lottery ticket to
8 any person under the age of eighteen shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
9 The division shall require the installation and maintenance of a lockout
10 device on all lottery vending machines by the licensed lottery sales
11 agents with control over such vending machines to prevent their use by
12 persons under the age of eighteen.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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