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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4280

                               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

        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.
    21    4.  The  mobile  sports  wagering  operator  or  platform shall notify
    22  authorized sports bettors of the existence of the default betting  limit

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08417-02-5
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     1  and  the  option  to opt-out at the time of registration. For authorized
     2  sports bettors already registered for the mobile sports  wagering  plat-
     3  form prior to the effective date of this section, such authorized sports
     4  bettors  shall  be  notified that they have been opted-in to the default
     5  betting limit and that they have the option to opt-out.
     6    5. The commission shall monitor compliance with  this  section  for  a
     7  mobile sports wagering operator's or platform's non-compliance, and such
     8  non-compliance  shall  be  fined  in  accordance  with the provisions of
     9  section one hundred sixteen of this chapter.
    10    § 3. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of  section  1367  of  the
    11  racing,  pari-mutuel  wagering and breeding law, as amended by section 3
    12  of part Y of chapter 59 of the laws of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
    13  follows:
    14    As  used in this section [and in], section thirteen hundred sixty-sev-
    15  en-a and section thirteen hundred sixty-seven-b of this title:
    16    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    18  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    19  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    20  completed on or before such effective date.