Oversight assumes that not all employees of lottery retailers purchase lottery tickets. Oversight also assumes that employees of lottery retailers wishing to play the lottery will still purchase the tickets, but at other locations. Therefore, Oversight assumes the loss in revenue to the Lottery Proceeds for Education Fund would be unknown, but minimal. Officials from the Office of the State Courts Administrator , the Office of the State Public Defender and the Office of Prosecution Services assume this proposal would not fiscally impact their respective agencies. This proposal prohibits licensed game retailers from selling lottery tickets or shares in lottery games to their own employees and prohibits employees of licensed game retailers from purchasing lottery tickets or shares in lottery games from their employers.
Violation is a class A misdemeanor.
This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space.