RALEIGH, N.C. โ North Carolina state lawmakers want to allow more lottery winners to claim their prizes anonymously, citing stories of jackpot winners harassed by friends, family and outsiders.
A Senate committee on Wednesday quickly approved Senate Bill 402 to allow winners of $5 million or more to claim their prizes without being publicly identified. Current law allows winners of $50 million or more to keep their identities confidential.
Sen. Ralph Hise, a Republican, amended the bill from its original $1-million threshold at the request of the North Carolina Lottery Commission, which โdoes use prize winners as advertising and those kinds of things and try to show people that somebody actually can win.โ
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