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*hb1134*
HOUSE BILL 1134
C7 5lr3356
By: Delegate Fair
Introduced and read first time: February 5, 2025
Assigned to: Ways and Means
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Sports Wagering – Sports Wagering Facility Licensees – Provision of Services 2
FOR the purpose of authorizing a sports wagering facility licensee that operates sports 3
wagering on behalf of another sports wagering facility licensee to utilize certain 4
branding and loyalty rewards programs; prohibiting the sports wagering facility 5
licensee from allowing an individual to utilize a certain account wallet under certain 6
circumstances; authorizing a sports wagering facility licensee that receives sports 7
wagering services to utilize and market certain branding and loyalty reward 8
programs in a certain manner; and generally relating to sports wagering. 9
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 10
Article – State Government 11
Section 9–1E–09(d) 12
Annotated Code of Maryland 13
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 14
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 15
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 16
Article – State Government 17
9–1E–09. 18
(d) (1) (I) Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a sports wagering 19
facility licensee may contract with any other sports wagering facility licensee to provide 20
sports wagering services on behalf of the licensee at a location where the licensee is 21
authorized to accept wagers on sporting events. 22
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(II) A CLASS A SPORTS WAGERING FACI LITY LICENSEE THAT 1
PROVIDES SPORTS WAGE RING SERVICES ON BEH ALF OF A CLASS B SPORTS 2
WAGERING FACILITY LI CENSEE: 3
1. MAY UTILIZE THE CLASS A SPORTS WAGERING 4
FACILITY’S BRANDING AND LOYAL TY REWARDS PROGRA MS AT THE CLASS B SPORTS 5
WAGERING FACILITY ON BEHALF OF WHICH I T IS PROVIDING SPORTS WAG ERING 6
SERVICES; BUT 7
2. MAY NOT ALLOW A N INDIVIDUAL TO UTIL IZE THE 8
ACCOUNT WALLET THAT THE INDIVIDUAL MAINT AINS WITH THE CLASS A SPORTS 9
WAGERING FACILITY WHEN PLACI NG WAGERS WITH THE CLASS B SPORTS 10
WAGERING LICENSEE. 11
(III) SUBJECT TO THE APPROV AL OF A CLASS A SPORTS 12
WAGERING FACILITY LI CENSEE, A CLASS B SPORTS WAGERING FACI LITY LICENSEE 13
THAT RECEIVES SPORTS WAGERING SERV ICES FROM A CLASS A SPORTS WAGERING 14
FACILITY LICENSEE MAY UTILIZE AND MARKET THE CLASS A SPORTS WAGERING 15
FACILITY LICENSEE’S BRANDING AND LOYAL TY REWARDS PROGRAMS IN THE SAME 16
MANNER AS THE CLASS A SPORTS WAGERING FACI LITY LICENSEE. 17
(2) If a sports wagering licensee authorized to accept wagers at a stadium 18
under subsection (a)(1)(iii) of this section contracts with a video lottery operator, or an 19
affiliate or a subsidiary of that video lottery operator, to provide sports wagering services 20
at the stadium, the licensee may contract only with a video lottery operator, or an affiliate 21
or a subsidiary of that video lottery operator, that operates a video lottery facility located 22
in the same county as the stadium. 23
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 24
1, 2025. 25