New York Assembly Bill A10440

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

• Introduced: 3/6/26
• Refer: 3/6/26

Caption

Relates to preventing minors from participating in sports wagering

Summary

This bill amends New York’s racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law to strengthen safeguards around mobile sports wagering and to prevent minors from participating in sports betting. It directs the State Gaming Commission to create an electronic exclusion list for mobile sports wagering platforms, allowing people to register identifying information that cannot be used to open an account. The bill also requires mobile sports wagering operators to block accounts using excluded identifying information and to adopt security protections for the handling of that data. The bill further expands the definition of prohibited account creation and wagering activity to cover attempts to use excluded identifying information, and it requires operators to conduct age assurance at account registration to determine whether a user is a minor. The commission must issue regulations identifying commercially reasonable and technically feasible age-verification methods, while prohibiting self-reported age alone as sufficient proof. Information collected for age assurance must generally be deleted immediately after the age check, and devices signaling that a user should be treated as a minor must be treated accordingly.

Impact

The bill would amend sections 1344, 1367, and 1367-a of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law. It would impose new regulatory duties on the State Gaming Commission, including creating rules for an exclusion list, defining and protecting identifying information, and setting standards for age assurance in mobile sports wagering. Mobile sports wagering operators would face new compliance obligations to screen for excluded information, prevent minors from registering accounts, and maintain data security safeguards.

Sentiment

The available context suggests the bill is generally supported as a consumer-protection and youth-protection measure, with no recorded votes or committee testimony indicating opposition. Its stated purpose and the committee progression indicate a favorable posture toward tightening safeguards in the mobile sports wagering market. The absence of recorded dissent in the provided materials suggests the bill was not especially controversial at this stage, though it was still in Assembly committee.

Contention

The main points of potential contention are the scope and feasibility of the new age-assurance and exclusion-list requirements. Operators may be concerned about the costs, technical burden, and privacy implications of collecting and deleting identifying information, while regulators must define what counts as commercially reasonable and technically feasible verification methods. Another possible issue is the treatment of device-based signals or privacy settings as indicators that a person is a minor, which could raise implementation questions for platforms and users.