Bill Text: NY A03826 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires all advertisements for gambling and sports betting to include warnings about potential harmful and addictive effects of gambling; requires the state gaming commission to cooperate with the commissioner of addiction services and supports to ensure that all advertisements for gaming activity state a problem gambling hotline number.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-08 - RECOMMITTED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [A03826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03826-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3826--B
                                                                Cal. No. 131

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Racing and Wagering -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- ordered to a
          third  reading  --  passed  by  Assembly  and delivered to the Senate,
          recalled from the Senate, vote  reconsidered,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
          relation to requiring  all  advertisements  for  gambling  and  sports
          betting  to  include  warnings  about  potential harmful and addictive
          effects of gambling and to requiring the state  gaming  commission  to
          cooperate  with the commissioner of addiction services and supports to
          ensure that all advertisements for gaming  activity  state  a  problem
          gambling hotline number

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  1  of  section  1363  of  the
     2  racing,  pari-mutuel  wagering and breeding law, as added by chapter 174
     3  of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "advertisement" shall mean any  notice  or  communication  to  the
     5  public  or  any  information concerning the gaming-related business of a
     6  gaming facility licensee or applicant or a mobile sports wagering licen-
     7  see as defined in section thirteen hundred sixty-seven of  this  article
     8  through  broadcasting,  publication or any other means of dissemination,
     9  including electronic dissemination.  Promotional activities are  consid-
    10  ered advertisements for purposes of this section.
    11    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 111 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering
    12  and breeding law, as amended by chapter 564 of  the  laws  of  2021,  is
    13  amended to read as follows:
    14    1.  (a)  The  commission  shall  cooperate  with  the  commissioner of
    15  addiction services and supports to ensure the posting of signs and list-
    16  ing of  information  on  the  internet  designed  to  assist  compulsive

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03193-04-2
        A. 3826--B                          2

     1  gamblers  pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (h) of section 19.09
     2  of the mental hygiene  law.  Such  postings  shall  include  information
     3  explaining  how  an  individual  may  add his or her name to the list of
     4  self-excluded  persons.  Signs  shall be posted at a reasonable distance
     5  from each entrance, exit and automated teller machine in the facility.
     6    (b) The commission shall cooperate with the commissioner of  addiction
     7  services  and  supports  to  ensure  that  all advertisements for gaming
     8  activity clearly and conspicuously  state  a  problem  gambling  hotline
     9  number.
    10    (c) The commission shall make available on its website information and
    11  technical  support which includes, but is not limited to, guidelines for
    12  any association, corporations licensed or enfranchised pursuant to  this
    13  chapter on advertising restrictions.
    14    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 564 of the laws of
    16  2021 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section two
    17  of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
    18  such chapter of the laws of 2021 takes effect.   Effective  immediately,
    19  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    20  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    21  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.