James Sheehan voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Authorizes Online Registration for Sports Betting
Signed by Governor Gina Raimondo
Title: Authorizes Online Registration for Sports Betting
Title: Authorizes Online Registration for Sports Betting
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes online registration for sports betting in Rhode Island.
Specifies that the “division” refers to the division of lotteries within the department of revenue and or any successor in interest thereto (Sec. 1).
Specifies that “hosting facility” refers to Twin River and the Tiverton gaming facility (Sec. 1).
Defines “online gaming account” as an account opened by a patron that such patron will use for the deposit and withdrawal of funds used for online sports wagering (Sec. 1).
Defines “online sports wagering” as engaging in the act of sports wagering by the placing of wagers on sporting events or a combination of sporting events, or on the individual performance statistics of athletes in a sporting event or a combination of sporting events, over the internet through computers, mobile applications on mobile devices or other interactive devices approved by the division, which wagers are accepted by a server-based gaming system located at the premises of a hosting facility authorized to accept sports wagers and administer payoffs of winning sports wagers (Sec. 1).
Authorizes a hosting facility to accept online wagers from players who have been affirmatively located as being physically present in Rhode island at the time of the wager (Sec. 1).
Requires the server-based gaming system and all hardware, software, and other technology or equipment located on a hosting facility’s premises and used to conduct online sports wagering to be located in a restricted area on the hosting facility’s premises (Sec. 1).
Requires online sports wagering to only be engaged in by patrons who have established an online gaming account pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated by the division (Sec. 1).
Establishes that this act will take effect upon passage (Sec. 2).
Title: Authorizes Online Registration for Sports Betting