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Budget Amendments - SB30 (Committee Approved)

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Lottery - Age Verification (language only)

Item 479 #2s

Item 479 #2s

Independent Agencies
Virginia Lottery

Language

Page 551, after line 27, insert:

"F. The Lottery shall develop an implementation plan to require all lottery terminals to possess proper age verification software to ensure that a consumer is 18 years of age or older. For purposes of this item, "terminal" means a device that is authorized by the Department to function in an interactive mode with the Department's computer gaming system or systems for the purpose of issuing tickets, plays, or an electronic facsimile thereof, and entering, receiving, and processing game-related transactions. Such plan may consider implementing age verification in lottery terminals based on the normal replacement schedule of terminals. The implementation plan shall: (i) develop a phased schedule to implement age verification software in terminals, (ii) establish a completion date for implementation, (iii) include cost estimates for such plan, (iv) provide alternative implementation schedules for consideration, and (v) recommend any necessary changes to statute or the appropriation act to implement the plan. No later than October 1, 2026, the Director of the Virginia Lottery shall report the implementation plan to the Governor and Chairs of the House Committees on General Laws and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on General Laws and Technology and Finance and Appropriations. The Virginia Lottery Board shall include the costs of such implementation plan in the revenue estimates developed and submitted to the Governor in accordance with Title 2.2 of the Code of Virginia and proceed only after a forecast is adopted by a general appropriation act that includes the costs of such implementation plan."



Explanation

(This amendment directs Lottery to develop an implementation plan to require all lottery terminals to possess proper age verification software to ensure that a consumer is 18 years of age or older.)