Bill Text: NY A04279 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits mobile sports wagering operators and platforms from sending push notifications or text message notifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - reported referred to codes [A04279 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4279

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Racing and Wagering

        AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
          relation to prohibiting mobile sports wagering operators and platforms
          from sending push notifications or text message notifications

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "regulating
     2  addictive notifications act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1367-a of the racing, pari-mutuel wager-
     4  ing and breeding law is amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as
     5  follows:
     6    (k) Mobile sports wagering operators and mobile sports wagering  plat-
     7  forms  shall be prohibited from initiating or sending mobile device push
     8  notifications or text message notifications, including alerts,  relating
     9  to  the  solicitation  of sports wagers or deposits from a mobile sports
    10  wagering operator's platform on which an authorized  sports  bettor  may
    11  place  a  sports  wager.    For the purposes of this paragraph, the term
    12  "push notification" means an automatic electronic message  displayed  on
    13  an  account  holder's  device,  when  the  user interface for the mobile
    14  sports wagering operator's platform is not actively open or  visible  on
    15  the device, that prompts the account holder to check or engage with such
    16  platform.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08412-02-5