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House File 755 - Introduced
                                  HOUSE FILE 755
                                  BY COMMITTEE ON STATE
                                      GOVERNMENT
                                  (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 200)
                            A BILL FOR
An Act authorizing sports wagering on electronic sports events
  and other sports-related events.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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    Section 1. Section 99F.1, subsection 3, Code 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
    3. “Authorized sporting event” means a professional sporting
 event, collegiate sporting event, international sporting
 event, electronic sports event, or professional motor race
 event. “Authorized sporting event” does not include a race as
 defined in section 99D.2, a fantasy sports contest as defined
 in section 99E.1, minor league sporting event, or any athletic
 event or competition of an interscholastic sport as defined in
 section 9A.102.
    Sec. 2. Section 99F.1, Code 2021, is amended by adding the
 following new subsection:
    NEW SUBSECTION. 10A. “Electronic sports event” means
 a multiplayer video game event governed by a recognized
 professional, international, or collegiate video game governing
 body.
    Sec. 3. Section 99F.1, Code 2021, is amended by adding the
 following new subsection:
    NEW SUBSECTION. 27A. “Sports-related event” means an
 event that takes place in relation to an authorized sporting
 event, but that is not tied to the outcome of a specific
 athletic event or contest as authorized by the commission.
 “Sports-related event” includes, but is not limited to,
 professional sports drafts and individual player awards.
    Sec. 4. Section 99F.1, subsection 28, Code 2021, is amended
 to read as follows:
    28. “Sports wagering” means the acceptance of wagers on
 an authorized sporting event or sports-related event by any
 system of wagering as authorized by the commission. “Sports
 wagering” does not include placing a wager on the performance
 or nonperformance of any individual athlete participating in a
 single game or match of a collegiate sporting event in which
 a collegiate team from this state is a participant, placing
 a wager on any individual performance or nonperformance of a
 participant in an electronic sports event who is under eighteen
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 years of age, or placing a wager on the performance of athletes
 in an individual international sporting event governed by the
 international olympic committee in which any participant in the
 international sporting event is under eighteen years of age.
    Sec. 5. Section 99F.7A, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    b. Establish, subject to commission approval, sports
 wagering rules that specify the amounts to be paid on winning
 sports wagers, the effect of changes in the scheduling of an
 authorized sporting event or sports-related event subject to
 sports wagering, and the source of the information used to
 determine the outcome of a sports wager. The sports wagering
 rules shall be displayed in the licensee’s sports wagering
 area, posted on the internet site or mobile application used
 by the licensee to conduct advance deposit sports wagering as
 authorized in section 99F.9, and included in the terms and
 conditions of the licensee’s advance deposit sports wagering
 system.
    Sec. 6. Section 99F.7A, subsection 4, Code 2021, is amended
 to read as follows:
    4. A licensee issued a license to conduct sports wagering
 under this section shall employ reasonable steps to prohibit
 coaches, athletic trainers, officials, players, or other
 individuals who participate in an authorized sporting event or
 sports-related event that is the subject of sports wagering
 from sports wagering under this chapter. In addition, a
 licensee shall employ reasonable steps to prohibit persons
 who are employed in a position with direct involvement with
 coaches, players, athletic trainers, officials, players, or
 participants in an authorized sporting event or sports-related
 event that is the subject of sports wagering from sports
 wagering under this chapter.
    Sec. 7. Section 99F.12, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    b. A licensee under section 99F.7A shall promptly report
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 to the commission any criminal or disciplinary proceedings
 commenced against the licensee or its employees in connection
 with the licensee conducting sports wagering or advance
 deposit sports wagering, any abnormal wagering activity or
 patterns that may indicate a concern about the integrity of
 an authorized sporting event or events sports-related event,
 and any other conduct with the potential to corrupt a wagering
 outcome of an authorized sporting event or sports-related
 event for purposes of financial gain, including but not
 limited to match fixing, and suspicious or illegal wagering
 activities, including the use of funds derived from illegal
 activity, wagers to conceal or launder funds derived from
 illegal activity, use of agents to place wagers, or use of
 false identification. The commission is required to share
 any information received pursuant to this paragraph with the
 division of criminal investigation, any other law enforcement
 entity upon request, or any regulatory agency the commission
 deems appropriate. The commission shall promptly report any
 information received pursuant to this paragraph with any
 sports team or sports governing body as the commission deems
 appropriate, but shall not share any information that would
 interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation.
                           EXPLANATION
         The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
          the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
    This bill relates to the inclusion of wagering on electronic
 sports events and other sports-related events within the
 provisions governing sports wagering.
    The bill adds “electronic sports events” as a type of
 authorized sporting event, and defines “electronic sports
 event” to mean a multiplayer video game event governed by a
 recognized professional, international, or collegiate video
 game governing body.
    The bill defines “sports-related event” as an event that
 takes place in relation to an authorized sporting event, but
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 that is not tied to the outcome of a specific athletic event
 or contest as authorized by the commission. “Sports-related
 events” include but are not limited to professional sports
 drafts and individual player awards.
    The bill adds wagers on sports-related events as a form
 of sports wagering, and prohibits placing a wager on any
 individual performance or nonperformance of a participant in an
 electronic sports event who is under 18 years of age.
    The bill makes conforming changes to Code sections 99F.7A
 and 99F.12.
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Statutes affected: 
Introduced: 99F.1, 99F.7A, 99F.9, 99F.12