Relates to preventing minors from participating in sports wagering
Summary
Relates to preventing minors from participating in sports wagering and creating accounts on mobile sports wagering platforms; requires platforms to employ commercially reasonable and technically feasible age assurance methods.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2025
Committee Review
Jun 2026
Senate Passage
Jun 2026
Assembly Passage
Governor
Introduced May 13, 2025
Last action Jun 4, 2026
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What changed between versions
S7908A
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S7908B
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4 edits
MODERATE
The bill was amended to add a second sponsor and include a new committee discharge step in its legislative history. Substantively, the bill now explicitly allows parents or legal guardians to register a minor's identifying information on an exclusion list to prevent them from creating sports wagering accounts. The definition of 'identifying information' was expanded to include Internet protocol addresses, and the commission was directed to maintain this exclusion list separately from the standard self-exclusion list for adults.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to explicitly include minors and their parents/guardians in the exclusion list mechanism, whereas the previous version focused more generally on preventing prohibited persons from wagering.
ELIGIBILITY
Added the ability for parents or legal guardians to register identifying information associated with a minor to prevent the minor from opening a sports wagering account.
DEFINITION
Expanded the definition of 'identifying information' to explicitly include Internet protocol addresses.
REQUIREMENT
Required the commission to maintain the exclusion list for identifying information as a separate and distinct list from the list of self-excluded persons.
Added a specific prohibition against mobile sports wagering operators allowing account registration using excluded identifying information, with an exception for information that has been removed from the list.
Floor votes · Senate Jun 3, 2026
How they voted
61–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 63
Jun 3, 2026
D
Democratic41
95% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
12
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Amendments
4
Jun 4, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO RACING AND WAGERING
lower
Jun 3, 2026
Upper · Passed
PASSED SENATE
upper
Jun 3, 2026
Committee
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
upper
May 29, 2026
Upper · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 7908B
upper
May 29, 2026
Upper · Passed
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
upper
Apr 15, 2026
Upper · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 7908A
upper
Apr 15, 2026
Upper · Passed
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
upper
Feb 10, 2026
Committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
upper
Jan 7, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING
upper
May 13, 2025
Committee
REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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