ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

House: COM DPA/SE 6-4-0-0

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HB 2328: technical correction; liquor licenses

S/E: fantasy sports contests

Sponsor: Representative Weninger, LD 13

Caucus & COW

 

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 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 to mean a simulated game or contest that is offered to the public with an entry fee in which participants compete against each other or a single participant competes against a target score set the operator. (Sec. 1)

4.   Removes the specification that a fantasy sports contest does not constitute or involve a contest that involves or results in betting on a race, a game, a contest or a sport that constitutes event wagering. (Sec. 1)

5.   Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1, 2)  

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