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The legislative Public Safety Committee this morning is set to vote on a bill that would compare the names of lottery winners against records of delinquent taxpayers. Under the bill, which would go on to the Finance Committee before floor debate in the Senate, then House, the Connecticut Lottery Corporation would “compare the name of any winner of a lottery prize of five thousand dollars or more against a list of delinquent taxpayers compiled by the Department of Revenue Services, and, if the lottery winner is on said list, to deduct the amount of delinquent taxes and any other applicable penalties or interest from the lottery winnings,” according to the bill analysis. |