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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3739--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wager-
ing -- recommitted to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
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-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ing of information on the internet designed to assist compulsive
2 gamblers pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (h) of section 19.09
3 of the mental hygiene law. Such postings shall include information
4 explaining how an individual may add his or her name to the list of
5 self-excluded persons. Signs shall be posted at a reasonable distance
6 from each entrance, exit and automated teller machine in the facility.
7 (b) The commission shall cooperate with the commissioner of addiction
8 services and supports to ensure that all advertisements for gaming
9 activity clearly and conspicuously state a problem gambling hotline
10 number.
11 (c) The commission shall make available on its website information and
12 technical support which includes, but is not limited to, guidelines for
13 any association, corporations licensed or enfranchised pursuant to this
14 chapter on advertising restrictions.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
17 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
18 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
19 completed on or before such effective date.
