Citizen in a RepublicNH House Testimony

HB485

House · 2025 sessionRepublicanSigned into law

Anonymity option for lottery winners

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Allows a winner of the state lottery to remain anonymous if certain conditions are met.

authorizing persons who win the state lottery to remain anonymous.Official record

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18 submissions
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All 3 written submissions were individually written — no organized campaign detected.

Status

Signed into law · August 11, 2025
  1. Introduced
  2. House
  3. Senate
  4. Governor
  5. Law
Sponsors, hearings & roll-call votes

The record · every submission as filed

18 submissions
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Caleb H
for Myself
Manchester

Give people their privacy. Revealing names automatically puts the winner at major safety risks.

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Margaret Konze
for Myself
Pembroke

Lottery winners should be able to decline to have their information publicly available. I really can’t understand the rationale for blasting this out on the news. If they were trying to avoid financial obligations like child support or court judgments when this income is reported via their Social Security number anyone who had a right to garnish the money would be able to obtain that information and do so. But this bill is better than nothing. As someone who used the Attorney Generals address confidentiality program (ACP) until I moved out of the state and moved back years later, I would have never played the lottery knowing that if I won he would see me on the news or be able to Google me and see what town I lived in when I won.

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KRISTINE PEREZ
for Myself
LONDONDERRY

This is necessary for the protection of the citizens of New Hampshire

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Catherine Tidd
for Myself
Amherst

Position recorded without written comment.

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Ashley Guion
for Myself
Swanzey

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Kristin Hall
for Myself
Newmarket

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Daniel Richardson
for Myself
Nashua

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Leigh Levandoski
for Myself
Rollinsford

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Dylan Palmer
for Myself
Wolfeboro

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Paul Dargie
for Myself
Milford

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Jean Brown
for Myself
Hanover

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Meri Morico
for Myself
Laconia

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Heath Howard
for Strafford-4
Strafford

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JOSH WHITE
for Myself
Barnstead

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Rebekah White
for Myself
Barnstead

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Eric Pauer
for Myself
Brookline

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Meredith Barkhouse
for Myself
Manchester

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Stephanie Moore
for Myself
Hudson

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