New Jersey S 3375: Removes and repeals all prohibitions, permits, licenses, and authorizations concerning wagers on professional, collegiate, or amateur sport contests or athletic events.

Bill Text

S3375 

SENATE, No. 3375 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes penalties for harassment and assault of 
athletes under certain circumstances. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

�� 

An Act concerning penalties for harassment and assault of 
athletes, amending N.J.S.2C:33-4, and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey 
Statutes.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1. N.J.S.2C:33-4 is amended to 
read as follows:

���� 2C:33-4.� Harassment.

���� Except as provided in 
subsection e. or f., a person commits a petty disorderly persons offense 
if, with purpose to harass another, he:

���� a.���� Makes, or causes to be 
made, one or more communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient 
hours, or in offensively coarse language, or any other manner likely to cause 
annoyance or alarm;

���� b.��� Subjects another to 
striking, kicking, shoving, or other offensive touching, or threatens to do so; 
or

���� c.���� Engages in any other 
course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to 
alarm or seriously annoy such other person.

���� A communication under 
subsection a. may be deemed to have been made either at the place where it 
originated or at the place where it was received.

���� d.��� (Deleted by amendment, 
P.L.2001, c.443).

���� e.���� A person commits a 
crime of the fourth degree if, in committing an offense under this section, he 
was serving a term of imprisonment or was on parole or probation as the result 
of a conviction of any indictable offense under the laws of this State, any other 
state or the United States or he knowingly directs such action to a current or 
former judge that relates to the performance of the judge's public duties.

���� f. (1) A person commits a crime 
of the fourth degree �if the person commits an offense under this section 
against an athlete who is engaged in, or in the immediate vicinity of, a 
sanctioned interscholastic, recreational, private, collegiate, or professional sports 
event and the offense occurs under the following circumstances:

���� (a) the harassment arises 
out of the athlete�s performance in the sports event; and

���� (b) the harassment relates 
to the person�s loss or adverse outcome from unlawful gambling under P.L.1978, 
c.95 (N.J.S.2C:37-1 et seq.) or lawful gambling activities under the �Casino 
Control Act,� section 116 of P.L.1977, c.110 (C.5:12-1 et seq.), including but 
not limited to Internet gambling and sports wagering activities under P.L.2018, 
c.33 (C.5:12A-10 et seq.).

���� (2) 
A person commits a crime of the third degree if the person commits an offense 
under paragraph (1) of this subsection against an athlete who is a student of a 
public school or private school, as defined in N.J.S.18A:1-1, or of a public or 
private institution of higher education. 

(cf: P.L.2021, c.327, s.1)

���� 2. (New section) 
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law and in addition to any other 
disposition ordered by the court, upon a second or subsequent conviction for a violation 
of subsection f. of N.J.S.2C:33-4, a person shall be subject to a lifetime ban 
from all online and in-person sports betting or wagering under P.L.2018, c.33 
(C.5:12A-10 et seq.).

���� 3. (New section) 
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law and in addition to any other 
disposition ordered by the court, upon a conviction for any assault in 
violation of N.J.S.2C:12-1 which arose out of conduct that also resulted in 
conviction for a violation of subsection f.� of N.J.S.2C:33-4, a person shall be 
subject to a lifetime ban from all online and in-person sports betting or 
wagering under P.L.2018, c.33 (C.5:12A-10 et seq.).

���� 4. This act shall take effect 
immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill establishes 
penalties for harassment of athletes under certain circumstances.

���� Under current law, a person 
commits a petty disorderly persons offense if, with purpose to harass another, 
the person: makes, or causes to be made, one or more communications anonymously 
or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language, or any 
other manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; subjects another to striking, 
kicking, shoving, or other offensive touching, or threatens to do so; or 
engages in any other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts 
with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person. 

���� This bill amends the 
harassment statute to establish that a person commits a crime of the fourth 
degree if the person commits harassment against an athlete, who is engaged in, 
or in the vicinity of, a sanctioned interscholastic, recreational, private, or 
collegiate sports event, and the harassment arises out of the athlete�s 
performance in the sports event and relate