Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, February 1, 1994 TAG: 9402010140
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short
The bill died on a 75-21 vote after its sponsor, Del. Jay DeBoer, D-Petersburg, conceded that people licensed to sell at the kiosks would be in business solely to dispense lottery tickets. Critics said that would be a liberalization of the lottery law.
Lottery advertising already goes well beyond what the General Assembly envisioned when the state went into to gaming business in 1988, argued Del. John Reid, R-Henrico. Kiosks set up only to sell tickets would carry things an unwanted step further, he said.
In general, the lottery law prohibits advertising designed to induce ticket sales. Lottery ads are supposed to be informational only.
Some delegates initially worried that the kiosk sales would be through vending machines, creating the possibility that tickets would be available to minors. It is illegal for anyone younger than 18 to buy a lottery ticket.
But DeBoer said the sales would have to be in person, and so the same checks would remain.
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