‘‘(aa) on the score, point- 
spread or any performance or 
performances of any single real- 
world team or any combination of 
such teams; or 
‘‘(bb) solely on any single 
performance of an individual ath-
lete in any single real-world 
sporting or other event. 
‘‘(7) The term ‘foreign jurisdiction’ means a ju-
risdiction of a foreign country or political subdivision 
thereof. 
‘‘(8) The term ‘gambling business’ means a 
business of betting or wagering; 
‘‘(9) The term ‘information assisting in the 
placing of bets or wagers’ means information know-
ingly transmitted by an individual in a gambling 
business for use in placing, receiving, making, or 
otherwise enabling or facilitating a bet or wager and 
does not include— 
‘‘(A) any posting or reporting of any edu-
cational information on how to make a legal bet 
or wager or the nature of betting or wagering, 
as long as such posting or reporting does not 
solicit or provide information for the purpose of
facilitating or enabling the placing or receipt of 
bets or wagers in a jurisdiction where such bet-
ting is illegal; or 
‘‘(B) advertising relating to betting or wa-
gering in a jurisdiction where such betting or 
wagering is legal, as long as such advertising 
does not solicit or provide information for the 
purpose of facilitating or enabling the placing 
or receipt of bets or wagers in a jurisdiction 
where such betting is illegal. 
‘‘(10) The term ‘person’ includes a government 
(including any governmental entity (as defined in 
section 3701(2) of title 28)). 
‘‘(11) The term ‘State’ means a State of the 
United States, the District of Columbia, or a com-
monwealth, territory, or possession of the United 
States. 
‘‘(12) The terms ‘credit’, ‘creditor’, and ‘credit 
card’ have the meanings given such terms in section 
103 of the Truth in Lending Act. 
‘‘(13) The term ‘electronic fund transfer’— 
‘‘(A) has the meaning given such term in 
section 903 of the Electronic Fund Transfer 
Act; or
‘‘(B) any fund transfer covered by Article 
4A of the Uniform Commercial Code, as in ef-
fect in any State. 
‘‘(14) The term ‘financial institution’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 903 of the Elec-
tronic Fund Transfer Act. 
‘‘(15) The term ‘insured depository institu-
tion’— 
‘‘(A) has the same meaning as in section 
3(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; and 
‘‘(B) includes any insured credit union (as 
defined in section 101 of the Federal Credit 
Union Act). 
‘‘(16) The terms ‘money transmitting business’ 
and ‘money transmitting service’ have the meanings 
given such terms in section 5330(d) of title 31, 
United States Code. 
‘‘(17) The terms ‘own or control’ and to be 
‘owned or controlled’ have the same meanings as in 
section 2(a)(2) of the Bank Holding Company Act 
of 1956. 
‘‘(18) The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary 
of the Treasury.
‘‘(19) The term ‘Tribe’ or ‘tribal’ means an In-
dian tribe, as defined under section 4(5) of the In-
dian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988).’’. 
SEC. 3. MODIFICATION OF EXISTING PROHIBITION. 
Section 1084 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 1084. Use of a communication facility to transmit 
bets or wagers; penalties 
‘‘(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
whoever, being engaged in a gambling business, knowingly 
uses a communication facility— 
‘‘(1) for the transmission in interstate or for-
eign commerce, within the special maritime and ter-
ritorial jurisdiction of the United States, or to or 
from any place outside the jurisdiction of any nation 
with respect to any transmission to or from the 
United States, of bets or wagers, or information as-
sisting in the placing of bets or wagers; or 
‘‘(2) for the transmission of a communication in 
interstate or foreign commerce, within the special 
maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United 
States, or to or from any place outside the jurisdic-
tion of any nation with respect to any transmission 
to or from the United States, which entitles the re-
cipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets
or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing 
of bets or wagers; 
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
five years, or both. 
‘‘(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
whoever, being engaged in a gambling business, knowingly 
accepts, in connection with the transmission of a commu-
nication in interstate or foreign commerce, within the spe-
cial maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United 
States, or to or from any place outside the jurisdiction 
of any nation with respect to any transmission to or from 
the United States of bets or wagers or information assist-
ing in the placing of bets or wagers— 
‘‘(1) credit, or the proceeds of credit, extended 
to or on behalf of another (including credit extended 
through the use of a credit card); 
‘‘(2) an electronic fund transfer or funds trans-
mitted by or through a money transmitting business, 
or the proceeds of an electronic fund transfer or 
money transmitting service, from or on behalf of the 
other person; 
‘‘(3) any check, draft, or similar instrument 
which is drawn by or on behalf of the other person 
and is drawn on or payable through any financial in-
stitution; or
‘‘(4) the proceeds of any other form of financial 
transaction as the Secretary of the Treasury may 
prescribe by regulation which involves a financial in-
stitution as a payor or financial intermediary on be-
half of or for the benefit of the other person, 
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
five years, or both. 
‘‘(c) Nothing in this section prohibits— 
‘‘(1) the transmission of information assisting 
in the placing of bets or wagers for use in news re-
porting if such transmission does not solicit or pro-
vide information for the purpose of facilitating or 
enabling the placing or receipt of bets or wagers in 
a jurisdiction where such betting is illegal; 
‘‘(2) the transmission of information assisting 
in the placing of bets or wagers from a State or for-
eign country where such betting or wagering is per-
mitted under Federal, State, tribal, or local law into 
a State or foreign country in which such betting on 
the same event is permitted under Federal, State, 
tribal, or local law; or 
‘‘(3) the interstate transmission of information 
relating to a State-specific lottery between a State or 
foreign country where such betting or wagering is 
permitted under Federal, State, tribal, or local law
and an out-of-State data center for the purposes of 
assisting in the operation of such State-specific lot-
tery. 
‘‘(d) Nothing in this section prohibits the use of a 
communication facility for the transmission of bets or wa-
gers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wa-
gers, if— 
‘‘(1) at the time the transmission occurs, the 
individual or entity placing the bets or wagers or in-
formation assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, 
the gambling business, and any facility or support 
service processing those bets or wagers is physically 
located in the same State, and the State has a se-
cure and effective customer verification and age 
verification system to assure compliance with age 
and residence requirements, and for class II or class 
III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory 
Act, are physically located on Indian lands within 
that State; 
‘‘(2) the State or Tribe has explicitly authorized 
such bets and wagers; 
‘‘(3) the State has explicitly authorized and li-
censed the operation of the gambling business, any 
facility processing the bets and wagers, and the sup-
port service within its borders or the Tribe has ex-
plicitly authorized and licensed the operation of such 
gambling business, any facility processing the bets 
and wagers, and the support service on Indian lands 
within its jurisdiction; 
‘‘(4) with respect to class II or class III gam-
ing, the game is permitted under and conducted in 
accordance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; 
‘‘(5) with respect to class III gaming under the 
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the game is author-
ized under, and is conducted in accordance with, the 
respective Tribal-State compact of the Tribe having 
jurisdiction over the Indian lands where the indi-
vidual or entity placing the bets or wagers or infor-
mation assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, the 
gambling business, and any facility or support serv-
ice processing those bets or wagers are physically lo-
cated; and 
‘‘(6) with respect to class III gaming under the 
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, each such Tribal- 
State compact expressly provides that the game may 
be conducted using a communication facility to 
transmit bets or wagers or information assisting in 
the placing of bets or wagers. 
‘‘(e) Nothing in this section creates immunity from 
criminal prosecution under any laws of any State or Tribe.
‘‘(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit an activity allowed under Public Law 95–515 (15 
U.S.C. 3001 et seq.). 
‘‘(g) Nothing in this section authorizes activity that 
is prohibited under chapter 178 of title 28, United States 
Code. 
‘‘(h) When any common carrier, subject to the juris-
diction of the Federal Communications Commission, is no-
tified in writing by a Federal, State, tribal or local law 
enforcement agency, acting within its jurisdiction, that 
any communication facility furnished by it is being used 
or will be used by its subscriber for the purpose of trans-
mitting or receiving gambling information, in interstate or 
foreign commerce, within the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States, or to or from any 
place outside the jurisdiction of any nation with respect 
to any transmission to or from the United States in viola-
tion of Federal, State, tribal or local law, it shall dis-
continue or refuse, the leasing, furnishing, or maintaining 
of such facility, after reasonable notice to the subscriber, 
but no damages, penalty or forfeiture, civil or criminal, 
shall be found against any common carrier for any act 
done in compliance with any notice received from a law 
enforcement agency. Nothing in this section shall be 
deemed to prejudice the right of any person affected there-
by to secure an appropriate determination, as otherwise 
provided by law, in a Federal court or in a State, tribal, 
or local tribunal or agency, that such facility should not 
be discontinued or removed, or should be restored. 
‘‘(i)(1) A Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforce-
ment agency, acting within its jurisdiction may, in a civil 
action, obtain injunctive or declaratory relief to restrain 
or prevent any person from paying or assisting in the pay-
ment of bets or wagers, or communicating information as-
sisting in the placing of bets or wagers, in interstate or 
foreign commerce, within the special maritime and terri-
torial jurisdiction of the United States, or to or from any 
place outside the jurisdiction of any nation with respect 
to any transmission to or from the United States in viola-
tion of Federal, State, tribal, or local law. 
‘‘(2) No damages, penalty, or forfeiture, civil or 
criminal, shall be found against any person or entity for 
any act done in compliance with any notice received from 
a law enforcement agency. 
‘‘(3) Relief granted under paragraph (1) against an 
interactive computer service (as defined in section 230(f) 
of the Communications Act of 1934) shall— 
‘‘(A) be limited to the removal of, or disabling 
of access to, an online site violating this section, or 
a hypertext link to an online site violating this sec-
tion, that resides on a computer server that such 
service controls or operates; except this limitation 
shall not apply if the service is violating this section 
or is in active concert with a person who is violating 
this section and receives actual notice of the relief; 
‘‘(B) be available only after notice to the inter-
active computer service and an opportunity for the 
service to appear are provided; 
‘‘(C) not impose any obligation on an inter-
active computer service to monitor its service or to 
affirmatively seek facts indicating activity violating 
this section; 
‘‘(D) specify the interactive computer service to 
which it applies; and 
‘‘(E) specifically identify the location of the on-
line site or hypertext link to be removed or access 
to which is to be disabled.’’. 
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
In addition to any other sums authorized to be appro-
priated for this purpose, there are authorized to be appro-
priated for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2010 
$10,000,000 for investigations and prosecutions of viola-
tions of section 1084 of title 18, United States Code. 
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