Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) have launched a invoice banning bets throughout dwell sporting occasions and proposition bets on faculty athletes, aiming to guard customers by requiring states that provide sports activities betting to adjust to sure federal requirements.
The laws, dubbed the Supporting Affordability and Equity with Each Guess (SAFE Guess) Act, intends to deal with what the lawmakers mentioned had been public well being considerations surrounding the legalization of sports activities betting and potential improve of playing dependancy by setting requirements in promoting, affordability and synthetic intelligence.
The invoice goals to prohibiting adverts that promote the usage of playing merchandise, present viewers the right way to gamble or clarify how wagers work. It might additionally prohibit the usage of bank cards for playing accounts and forestall synthetic intelligence from monitoring customers’ playing habits.
“This invoice is a matter of public well being. It’s a matter of stopping dependancy, saving lives, and ensuring that younger individuals notably are protected in opposition to exploitation,” Blumenthal mentioned.
Tonko additionally mentioned the invoice would permit federal information assortment on sports activities betting.
“This invoice is an effort designed to forestall hurt earlier than it happens,” Tonko mentioned.
The laws has confronted sharp criticism from the American Gaming Affiliation (AGA), calling it a “slap within the face.”
“Six years into authorized sports activities betting, introducing heavy-handed federal prohibitions is a slap within the face to state legislatures and gaming regulators who’ve devoted numerous time and sources to growing considerate frameworks distinctive to their jurisdictions, and have continued to iterate as their marketplaces evolve,” it mentioned in a press release.
Sports activities betting is presently authorized in 38 states and Washington, D.C., in keeping with the AGA, and 30 of these states permit wagering on-line.
