RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 284 (SB 50) 2024 Regular Session Reese
Existing law restricts certain persons from placing a wager on a sports event based on age,
location, affiliation with an individual participant or team in the sports event, and other
factors. Existing law also provides for a uniform compulsive and problem gambling program
that allows an individual to request their placement on a list to be excluded from gaming
activities at all gaming establishments. In addition, gaming licensees, operators, and sports
governing bodies typically have various restrictions on the placement of sports wagers by
their employees, players, and members.
New law creates the crime of a prohibited player placing a wager on a sports event,
personally or through another individual or proxy. New law provides that it shall also be a
crime for a person or entity to facilitate or place a sports wager on behalf of a prohibited
player.
New law defines "prohibited player" as a person who is prohibited from placing a wager on
a sports event by any of the following:
(1)The sports wagering chapter in the La. Gaming Control Law or in the correlating La.
Administrative Code.
(2)Participation in a self-restriction or self-exclusion program in accordance with the
La. Gaming Control Law or in the correlating La. Administrative Code.
(3)Any other law, administrative rule, or policy of any jurisdiction, the sports wagering
operator, the sports book, or a sports governing body.
New law provides a criminal penalty for a violation of new law of a fine not more than $500,
or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. Further provides that on a second and
subsequent violation, the penalty shall be a fine of $1,000, or imprisonment with or without
hard labor for not more than one year, or both.
New law provides whoever conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, leases, or owns
all or part of a business when the person knowingly allows a prohibited player to wager on
a sports event shall be fined not more than $20,000, or imprisoned, with or without hard
labor, for not more than five years, or both.
New law provides that a person, business, or entity licensed, or sports wagering operator
permitted, pursuant to the sports wagering law shall not be subject to the penalty if the
licensee or permittee has taken commercially reasonable methods to prevent a prohibited
player from placing a wager on a sports event in person, on a sports wagering mechanism,
or through a mobile application.
New law provides that a sports wagering platform provider permitted by the Louisiana
Lottery shall not be subject to the penalty if the permittee has taken commercially reasonable
methods to prevent a prohibited player from placing a wager on a sports event on a sports
wagering mechanism or through a mobile application.
Effective May 28, 2024.
(Adds R.S. 14:90.8)