Sports Gaming Opportunity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-783
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2017-02-01
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Gambling

Professional sports

School athletics

State and local government operations
Latest action: action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Sports Gaming Opportunity Act of 2017</b></p> <p> This bill amends the federal judicial code to exempt a lottery, sweepstakes, or other betting, gambling, or wagering scheme authorized by a state by a statute enacted on or after January 1, 2017, and in effect not later than January 1, 2021, from the prohibition against a governmental entity, or a person acting pursuant to the law or compact of<em><strong> </strong></em>a governmental entity, sponsoring, operating, advertising, or promoting sports gambling.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 783 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 1, 2017 Mr. LoBiondo (for himself and Mr. Pallone ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend chapter 178 of title 28 of the United States Code to permit during a 4-year period States to enact statutes that exempt from the operation of such chapter, lotteries, sweepstakes, and other betting, gambling, or wagering schemes involving professional and amateur sports.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sports Gaming Opportunity Act of 2017 . 2. Amendment Section 3704(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (3) by striking or at the end, (2) in paragraph (4) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or , and (3) by adding at the end the following: (5) a lottery, sweepstakes, or other betting, gambling, or wagering scheme in a State authorized by such State by an applicable statute— (A) enacted on or after January 1, 2017, and (B) as in effect not later than January 1, 2021. .