New York A 6933: Relates to knowingly encouraging a gambling addiction

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A06933 Summary:

BILL NOA06933 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORVanel

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1363-a, RWB L

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Imposes civil penalties; provides a private cause of action against entities knowingly encouraging a gambling addiction.

Go to top A06933 Actions:

BILL NOA06933 

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03/18/2025referred to racing and wagering

01/07/2026referred to racing and wagering

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Go to topA06933 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6933

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Racing and Wagering

 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
 relation to knowingly encouraging a gambling addiction

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

 1 Section 1. The racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law is
 2 amended by adding a new section 1363-a to read as follows:
 3 § 1363-a. Knowingly encouraging a gambling addiction. 1. An entity
 4 licensed under this article shall be guilty of knowingly encouraging a
 5 gambling addiction where such entity, an employee, agent or another at
 6 the entity's direction willfully engages human-to-human contact with a
 7 person and through such contact knows or should have known that such
 8 contact is inducing, exacerbating, or sustaining compulsive gambling
 9 behavior or gambling disorder in another beyond reasonable and sustaina-
 10 ble levels for that person. In determining whether an entity has know-
 11 ingly encouraged a gambling addiction, a court shall consider:
 12 (a) The income reported by the person to the entity;
 13 (b) The total amount wagered;
 14 (c) The level and type of contact between the entity and the person,
 15 compared to other users of the entity's service;
 16 (d) Communications between the person and the entity, and whether
 17 those communications indicate the person explicitly indicated to the
 18 entity that they suffer or may suffer from a gambling addiction;
 19 (e) Communications between the person and the entity, and whether
 20 those communications indicate the person implicitly indicated to the
 21 entity that they suffer or may suffer from a gambling addiction;
 22 (f) Whether the person has previously self-excluded themselves from
 23 wagering;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10854-01-5

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 1 (g) Whether the person indicated to the entity that the money used to
 2 gamble was acquired through sources that would indicate a gambling
 3 addiction, such as savings accounts, loans, and other similar sources;
 4 (h) Whether the entity internally flagged that the person had a gambl-
 5 ing addiction and continued to provide gambling services to the person;
 6 (i) Whether the entity failed to consider or input the relevant infor-
 7 mation that would have flagged such person as a gambling addict;
 8 (j) Whether the entity, after making a determination that the person
 9 is or may suffer from a gambling addiction, failed to ban such person
 10 from wagering on such entity's application; and
 11 (k) The overall number of persons who developed a gambling addiction
 12 after engaging in human-to-human contact with the entity, its employees,
 13 agents or others at the direction of the entity.
 14 2. An entity shall not be guilty of knowingly encouraging a gambling
 15 addiction merely through the lawful passive or targeted offering or
 16 communication to another of an entity's services through non-human-to-
 17 human contact.
 18 3. Where the commission determines that a violation of the provisions
 19 of this section has occurred, the commission shall impose a civil penal-
 20 ty not exceeding two times such amounts wagered by the person who is the
 21 subject of the violation, provided however that where the commission
 22 determines that the entity has engaged in a persistent course of conduct
 23 in violation of this section, such amount shall increase to three times
 24 such amounts wagered by th