Bill Text: NY A04280 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "choice in responsible gaming act"; requires mobile sports wagering operators to establish default betting limits on their platform and to notify authorized sports bettors of their ability to opt-out of the default betting limits; directs the gaming commission to determine the monetary limit and defined period of time for such betting limits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - print number 4280a [A04280 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04280-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4280--A

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Racing and Wagering -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
          relation to requiring mobile sports wagering  operators  to  establish
          default  betting  limits  on  their platforms and to notify authorized
          sports bettors of their ability to  opt-out  of  the  default  betting
          limits

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "choice in responsible gaming act".
     3    §  2.  The racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law is amended by
     4  adding a new section 1367-b to read as follows:
     5    § 1367-b. Mobile sports wagering; default betting limits. 1.  For  the
     6  purposes  of this section, "default betting limit" shall mean a defined,
     7  maximum monetary amount that  an  authorized  sports  bettor  may  wager
     8  through a mobile sports wagering platform over a defined period of time.
     9    2.  All  mobile  sports  wagering  operators  shall  implement default
    10  betting limits on their mobile sports wagering  platforms.  The  default
    11  betting  limit shall be determined by the commission prior to the effec-
    12  tive date of this section and shall be based on the  best  practices  to
    13  encourage responsible gambling.
    14    3.  When  an  authorized  sports  bettor registers for a mobile sports
    15  wagering operator's platform, such  authorized  sport  bettor  shall  be
    16  opted-in to the default betting limit. Authorized sports bettors who are
    17  already  registered for the mobile sports wagering platform prior to the
    18  effective date of this section shall also be  opted-in  to  the  default
    19  betting  limit.  All  authorized sports bettors shall have the option to
    20  opt-out of the default betting limit.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08417-03-5
        A. 4280--A                          2

     1    4. The mobile  sports  wagering  operator  or  platform  shall  notify
     2  authorized  sports bettors of the existence of the default betting limit
     3  and the option to opt-out at the time of  registration.  For  authorized
     4  sports  bettors  already registered for the mobile sports wagering plat-
     5  form prior to the effective date of this section, such authorized sports
     6  bettors  shall  be  notified that they have been opted-in to the default
     7  betting limit and that they have the option to opt-out.
     8    § 3. Paragraph b of subdivision 16 of  section  1367  of  the  racing,
     9  pari-mutuel  wagering  and breeding law, as added by section 3 of part Y
    10  of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    11    (b) Any person, firm, corporation, association, agent, or employee who
    12  knowingly violates any procedure implemented under  this  section,  [or]
    13  section  thirteen  hundred sixty-seven-a of this title, or section thir-
    14  teen hundred sixty-seven-b of this title, shall be liable  for  a  civil
    15  penalty  as  described  in  section  one hundred sixteen of this chapter
    16  which shall accrue to the state and may be recovered in a  civil  action
    17  brought by the commission.
    18    §  4.  The  opening  paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1367 of the
    19  racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as amended by  section  3
    20  of  part  Y  of  chapter  59  of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
    21  follows:
    22    As used in this section [and in], section thirteen hundred  sixty-sev-
    23  en-a and section thirteen hundred sixty-seven-b of this title:
    24    § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    26  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    27  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    28  completed on or before such effective date.