HB 2328
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
HB 2328: technical correction; liquor licenses
S/E: fantasy sports contests
Sponsor: Representative Weninger, LD 13
Committee on Commerce
Summary of the Strike Everything Amendment to HB 2328
Overview
Clarifies what constitutes as a fantasy sports contest.
History
Laws 2021, Chapter 234, established laws regulating fantasy sports betting and event
wagering, including licensing requirements for fantasy sports contests and event wagering
operators.
A person is required to be licensed as a fantasy sports contest operator in order to offer
fantasy sports contests in this state. An individual may offer one or more fantasy sports
contests if:
1) the fantasy sports contests are not made available to the general public;
2) each of the fantasy sports contests is limited to not more than fifteen total fantasy
sports contest players; and
3) the individual collects not more than $10,000 in total entry fees for all fantasy sports
contests offered in a calendar year, at least 95% of which are awarded to the fantasy
sports contest players.
Fantasy sports contest is a simulated game or contest that is offered to the public with an
entry fee and that meets all of the following conditions:
1) no fantasy sports contest team is composed of the entire roster of a real-world sports
team;
2) no fantasy sports contest team is composed entirely of individual athletes who are
members of the same real-world sports team;
3) each prize or award or the value of all prizes or awards offered to winning fantasy
sports contest players is made known to the fantasy sports contest players in advance
of the fantasy sports contest;
4) each winning outcome reflects the relative knowledge and skill of the fantasy sports
contest players and is determined by the aggregated statistical results of the
performance of multiple individual athletes or participants selected by the fantasy
sports contest player to form the fantasy sports contest team, whose individual
performances in the fantasy sports contest directly correspond with the actual
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performance of those athletes or participants in the athletic events in which those
individual athletes or participants participated; and
5) a winning outcome is not based on randomized or historical events or on the score,
point spread or performance in an athletic event of a single real-world sports team, a
single athlete or any combination of real-world sports teams (A.R.S. § 5-1201).
Provisions
1. Specifies a fantasy sports contest conducted by an operator as defined in the fantasy
sports contest statutes does not constitute event wagering as defined in the event
wagering statutes. (Sec. 2)
2. Stipulates that the applicable conditions required to offer a fantasy sports contests apply
as conditions for offering a fantasy sports contests without a license. (Sec. 2)
3. Modifies the definition of fantasy sports contest. (Sec. 1)
4. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 2)