I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 707 
To restore long-standing United States policy that the Wire Act prohibits 
all forms of Internet gambling, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 4, 2015 
Mr. CHAFFETZ (for himself, Ms. GABBARD, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. FRANKS 
of Arizona, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. DENT, Mr. HOLDING, and Mr. 
FORBES) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To restore long-standing United States policy that the Wire 
Act prohibits all forms of Internet gambling, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Restoration of Amer-
ica’s Wire Act’’. 
SEC. 2. WIRE ACT CLARIFICATION. 
Section 1084 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘bets or wagers or infor-
mation assisting in the placing of bets or wa-
gers on any sporting event or contest,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘any bet or wager, or information as-
sisting in the placing of any bet or wager,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘result of bets or wagers’’ 
and inserting ‘‘result of any bet or wager’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘placing of bets or wagers’’ 
and inserting ‘‘placing of any bet or wager’’; 
and 
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(e) As used in this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘bet or wager’ does not include 
any activities set forth in section 5362(1)(E) of title 
31; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘State’ means a State of the 
United States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, or a commonwealth, ter-
ritory, or possession of the United States; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘uses a wire communication facil-
ity for the transmission in interstate or foreign com-
merce of any bet or wager’ includes any trans-
mission over the Internet carried interstate or in for-
eign commerce, incidentally or otherwise; and 
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‘‘(4) the term ‘wire communication’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 3 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153).’’. 
SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this 
Act, shall be construed— 
(1) to preempt any State law prohibiting gam-
bling; or 
(2) to alter, limit, or extend— 
(A) the relationship between the Interstate 
Horseracing Act of 1978 (15 U.S.C. 3001 et 
seq.) and other Federal laws in effect on the 
date of enactment of this Act; 
(B) the ability of a State licensed lottery 
retailer to make in-person, computer-generated 
retail lottery sales under applicable Federal and 
State laws in effect on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act; or 
(C) the relationship between Federal laws 
and State charitable gaming laws in effect on 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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