SB144: (New Title) relative to lottery ticket sales and revenue.

CHAPTER 311

SB 144-FN – FINAL VERSION

31May2007… 1678h

2007 SESSION

07-1203

08/10

SENATE BILL 144-FN

AN ACT relative to lottery ticket sales and revenue.

SPONSORS: Sen. Gallus, Dist 1; Sen. D’Allesandro, Dist 20; Rep. Hatch, Coos 3; Rep. Remick, Coos 2; Rep. Gionet, Graf 3

COMMITTEE: Ways and Means

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill modifies sales incentive caps for jackpot prizes and eliminates some restrictions on payments to the tri-state lotto commission.

This bill eliminates the set 5 percent commission rate on lottery ticket sales and allows the lottery commission to increase the retailer commission rate and establish sales incentives. This bill also repeals the restriction on sales from mobile units by sellers other than employees of the lottery commission.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

31May2007… 1678h

07-1203

08/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven

AN ACT relative to lottery ticket sales and revenue.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

311:1 Lottery Sales; Commissions. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 284:21-h, II(d) to read as follows:

(d) May be sold by or for the lottery commission at designated locations, other than grounds and campuses of public and private schools, colleges, and universities, by persons, whether natural, associate, or corporate, authorized to sell such tickets on a [uniform] minimum 5 percent commission basis for services rendered[, which sum shall be the sole compensation paid to the principal for such ticket selling]. The commission may establish higher sales commission rates no greater than 6 percent and other sales incentives deemed necessary to increase lottery sales. All sales shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the commission provided:

311:2 Repeal. RSA 284:21-h, II(d)(1), relative to requiring that sales from mobile units be limited to sales by lottery commission employees, is repealed.

311:3 Modification of Incentive Caps. RSA 284:21-s is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

284:21-s Incentive Awards for Ticket Sellers. The lottery commission is authorized to pay cash incentives, at a rate established by the commission but not to exceed $30,000 for a jackpot winning ticket, or not to exceed $500 for each incidence of meeting or exceeding lottery commission established sales goals, as an inducement to servants and agents authorized to sell tickets pursuant to RSA 284:21-h, II(d).

311:4 Elimination of Payment Restriction. Amend RSA 287-F:9, II to read as follows:

II. Within one week after a tri-state lotto drawing has been held, the party state commission shall pay to the commission, who in turn shall promptly pay to an account known as the tri-state lotto prize account, moneys as are necessary for the payment of prizes, less actual prizes paid by the respective party state in the preceding week[, but not to exceed 50 percent of the total amount for which tickets have been sold].

311:5 Elimination of Payment Restriction. Amend RSA 287-F:3 to read as follows:

287-F:3 Purpose. This compact is enacted to implement the operation of tri-state lotto, for the purpose of raising additional revenue for each of the party states. Tri-state lotto is not intended to replace any existing lottery game in the party states, but, rather, to be run in addition to these games. Tri-state lotto tickets shall be sold in each of the party states and processed in a central area to be determined by the tri-state lotto commission. [Fifty percent] A percentage of the gross sales from each state shall be aggregated in a common prize pool, and operating costs shall be charged proportionally to the party states. The remaining revenues generated within each state shall remain in that particular state.

311:6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: July 13, 2007

Effective: September 11, 2007