Title: Removing Federal Barriers to Offering of Mobile Sports Wagers on Indian Lands Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Removing Federal Barriers to Offering of Mobile Sports Wagers on Indian Lands Act
This bill establishes provisions related to the regulation of certain online sports wagers (i.e., bets) as Indian gaming.
The bill deems an online sports wager as occurring exclusively on Indian lands, and therefore subject to the jurisdictional framework that governs Indian gaming, if (1) the person placing the wager and the server that accepts the wager are located in the same state, and (2) the applicable state and Indian tribe have entered into a gaming compact that authorizes online sports wagering.
For the purposes of regulation as Indian gaming, an online sports wager is deemed to be made at the physical location of the server or other computer equipment used to accept the wager.
The bill also excludes online sports wagering platform vendors from the management contract requirements related to Indian gaming.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5502 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5502

  To remove Federal barriers regarding the offering of mobile sports 
wagers on Indian lands when the applicable State and Indian Tribe have 
             reached an agreement, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2019

Mr. Brindisi (for himself, Mr. Katko, Mr. Higgins of New York, and Mr. 
    Gosar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To remove Federal barriers regarding the offering of mobile sports 
wagers on Indian lands when the applicable State and Indian Tribe have 
             reached an agreement, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Removing Federal Barriers to 
Offering of Mobile Sports Wagers on Indian Lands Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``interactive sports wagering platform'' means 
        a person or entity to the extent such person or entity offers 
        lawful sports wagering over the internet, including through an 
        internet website or mobile application; and
            (2) the term ``sports wager'' means the staking or risking 
        by any person of something of value upon the outcome of a 
        sporting event, including the outcome of any portion or aspect 
        thereof, upon an agreement or understanding that the person or 
        another person shall receive something of value in the event of 
        a certain outcome.

SEC. 3. IGRA SPORTS WAGERS.

    For purposes of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et 
seq.) only, a sports wager made through an interactive sports wagering 
platform shall be deemed to be made at the physical location of the 
server or other computer equipment used to accept the sports wager.

SEC. 4. PRESERVATION OF STATES' RIGHTS.

    With respect to a sports wager accepted through a server or other 
equipment located on Indian lands (as defined in section 4 of the 
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2703)), the sports wager shall 
be considered to be exclusively occurring on Indian lands if--
            (1) the person placing the sports wager and the server or 
        other computer equipment through which the sports wager is 
        accepted are in the same State; and
            (2) the applicable State and Indian Tribe have entered into 
        a Tribal-State compact under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 
        authorizing the placing of sports wagers through interactive 
        sports wagering platforms.

SEC. 5. MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS.

    Section 12 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2711) is 
amended by adding at end the following:
    ``(j) Subsection (b)(5) and subsection (c) shall not apply to a 
management contract entered into between an Indian Tribe and a person 
or entity to the extent such person or entity offers lawful sports 
wagering over the internet, including through an internet website or 
mobile application.''.
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