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An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities

An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative James Dill
Last action
2025-05-16
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities

An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities Sponsor: Representative James Dill Reference committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities Sponsor: Representative James Dill Reference committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0947(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0947(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 404 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-16 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-14 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  3. 2025-05-13 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2025-05-01 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-02-04 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs.

Official Summary Text

An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities
Sponsor:
Representative James Dill
Reference committee:
Veterans and Legal Affairs
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Page 1 - 132LR0947(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 258 - L.D. 404
An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Certain Lottery Winner Identities
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 8 MRSA §378-B is enacted to read:
§378-B. Lottery winner identity; confidentiality
The identity of a person awarded a prize of $100,000 or more and the identity of a
person who is a participant in the Address Confidentiality Program under Title 5, section
90-B awarded a prize of any amount are confidential unless the person awarded such a
prize provides written authorization to the bureau allowing the disclosure of that person's
identity. The bureau may disclose the identity of the person to another state agency solely
for purposes authorized under state and federal law, and that state agency is prohibited from
further disclosing the person's identity.
Information designated as confidential under this section is not a public record as
defined in Title 1, section 402, subsection 3.
APPROVED
MAY 16, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
74
PUBLIC LAW