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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Lottery; disclosure of identity of winners."
description: "Virginia Lottery; disclosure of identity of winners. Prohibits the Virginia Lottery (the Department) from disclosing information about any individual winner whose prize is $1 million or greater and exempts such information from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act unless the winner consents to such disclosure. Under current law, the Department is prohibited from disclosing information about any individual winner whose prize exceeds $10 million."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1799"
citation: "Virginia HB 1799 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Wyatt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/784d11fc-2f32-4a9d-8fc2-617be5de5070"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1799"
source_hash: "4d0a9f3a503fc2023593cd843e1a4a23e732ac7a54621b40e936831cba25c0d4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1799 (2025) — Virginia Lottery; disclosure of identity of winners.
Virginia Lottery; disclosure of identity of winners. Prohibits the Virginia Lottery (the Department) from disclosing information about any individual winner whose prize is $1 million or greater and exempts such information from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act unless the winner consents to such disclosure. Under current law, the Department is prohibited from disclosing information about any individual winner whose prize exceeds $10 million.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1013062.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071146.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046245.PDF)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) — **354** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N 2-A) — **60** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 2-N) — **132** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Scott A. Wyatt — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101077D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1799)
- **2025-01-14** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N 2-A)
- **2025-01-16** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-01-22** Passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-23** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (38-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-07** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Passed Senate (35-Y 4-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-12** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1799ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1799)
- **2025-02-12** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-15** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 76 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0076)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/784d11fc-2f32-4a9d-8fc2-617be5de5070`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).