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Two lawmakers in Pennsylvania are taking note of recent legislative efforts to bolster consumer protections for gambling in Colorado by introducing similar legislation of their own.

Reps. Tarik Khan and Jamie Flick announced on Wednesday plans to introduce three separate bills that are geared toward addressing problem gambling in the Keystone State.

“As a nurse practitioner, I believe we should address problem gambling the same way we address other public health challenges: with prevention, education, treatment, and commonsense safeguards,” said Khan. “Our bipartisan bill package will help protect young people, individuals, and families while supporting responsible gaming.”

The measures to be introduced by Khan and Flick each plays a different role in implementing new consumer protection standards for Pennsylvania’s gaming market.

The three bills the lawmakers will introduce include:

The Pennsylvania Online Consumer Protection Act: a measure that aims to impose limits on the numbe..

Two Congressmen have introduced new federal legislation that would mandate the U.S. government to conduct a multiyear study into the causes, long-term effects, and treatment of gambling disorders, particularly those related to online sports betting.

New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman and Utah Republican Rep. Blake Moore announced last week that their bipartisan Gambling Disorder Health Study Act has officially been introduced in the House of Representatives.

The bill, numbered HR 8970, would:

Mandate a federal study into gambling disorders and harms

Analyze the contributing factors, which may include sports betting expansion

Assess potentially effective prevention and treatment strategies for gambling disorders

Require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report annually to Congress on the study’s findings, and to provide resultant policy recommendations

Federal excise tax would fund gambling disorders study

The legislation stipulates that the study would be funded b..

A bill to prohibit licensed sports betting operators in New Jersey from offering micro bet markets is gaining momentum after an Assembly subcommittee advanced the measure on Monday.

The state Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee approved Assembly Bill 3258 by a 6-0 vote with one abstention. The bill, introduced by a consortium of Democratic Assemblymembers in January, explicitly bans micro, or “live bets” in the Garden State.

“Micro betting has become an increasingly popular practice whereby bettors can wager on each play in a sporting event,” reads AB 3258. “Examples of micro bets include whether the next pitch in a baseball game will be a strike or whether the next play in a football game will be a pass or run.”

Bill takes live ‘next play’ bets off the menu

AB 3258 provides clarity of what is considered a micro bet, defining the offerings as “a proposition bet which is wagered live, while a sport or athletic event is ongoing, and concerns the outcome of the next play or action ..

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed an expansive sports betting bill that implements new responsible gaming standards and procedures for operators and bettors in the state.

Polis signed Senate Bill 26-131 on Monday, a measure making sweeping changes to Colorado’s sports betting market by adding new requirements aimed at protecting bettors in the state. The bill includes a landmark provision for regulated gaming in the U.S. related to how sportsbooks communicate with bettors.

What changes are being made to Colorado sportsbooks?

The Colorado sportsbook measure implements several sports betting-related changes in the Centennial State:

The bill makes Colorado the first state to prohibit the delivery of push notifications or texts to solicit bets

Bettors are no longer allowed to use credit cards to fund player accounts

Operators are barred from using “bonus bet” or “no sweat” language in marketing

Bettors are limited to six separate deposits for a sportsbook in a 24-hour period

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