Student Athlete Protection Act

Student Athlete Protection Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to include as unlawful sports gambling a lottery, sweepstakes, or other betting, gambling, or wagering scheme based, directly or indirectly, on one or more: (1) competitive games in which high school or college athletes participate; (2) performances of high school or college athletes in competitive games; or (3) competitive games at the Summer or Winter Olympics.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1422 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1422

   To prohibit high school and college sports gambling in all States 
   including States where such gambling was permitted prior to 1991.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2005

    Mr. Osborne (for himself, Mr. Shays, Mr. King of New York, Mr. 
  Etheridge, and Mr. Leach) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit high school and college sports gambling in all States 
   including States where such gambling was permitted prior to 1991.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Student Athlete Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

    Section 3704 of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Section'' and 
        inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (c), section''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c)(1) Section 3702 shall apply to a lottery, sweepstakes or 
other betting, gambling, or wagering scheme based, directly or 
indirectly, on--
            ``(A)(i) one or more competitive games in which high school 
        or college athletes participate; or
            ``(ii) one or more performances of high school or college 
        athletes in competitive games; or
            ``(B) one or more competitive games at the Summer or Winter 
        Olympics.
    ``(2) In this section--
            ``(A) the term `high school' has the meaning given the term 
        `secondary school' in section 14102 of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965; and
            ``(B) the term `college' has the meaning given the term 
        `institution of higher education' in section 101 of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect on the date that 
is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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