Restoration of America's Wire Act - Amends provisions of the federal criminal code, commonly known as the Wire Act, to provide that the prohibition against transmission of wagering information shall apply to any bet or wager, or information assisting in the placing of any bet or wager (thus making such prohibition applicable to all types of gambling activities, including Internet gambling). States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to: (1) preempt any state law prohibiting gambling; or (2) alter, limit, or extend the relationship between the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 and other federal laws currently in effect, the ability of a state licensed lottery retailer to make in-person, computer-generated retail lottery sales, or the relationship between federal laws and state charitable gaming laws.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2159 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2159
To restore long-standing United States policy that the Wire Act
prohibits all forms of Internet gambling, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 26, 2014
Mr. Graham (for himself, Mr. Lee, Ms. Ayotte, and Mrs. Feinstein)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To restore long-standing United States policy that the Wire Act
prohibits all forms of Internet gambling, and for other purposes.
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 ``Restoration of America's Wire Act''.
SEC. 2. WIRE ACT CLARIFICATION.
Section 1084 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) by striking ``bets or wagers or information
assisting in the placing of bets or wagers on any
sporting event or contest,'' and inserting ``any bet or
wager, or information assisting in the placing of any
bet or wager,'';
(B) by striking ``result of bets or wagers'' and
inserting ``result of any bet or wager''; and
(C) by striking ``placing of bets or wagers'' and
inserting ``placing of any bet or wager''; and
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
``(e) As used in this section--
``(1) the term `bet or wager' does not include any
activities set forth in section 5362(1)(E) of title 31;
``(2) the term `State' means a State of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a
commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States;
``(3) the term `uses a wire communication facility for the
transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of any bet or
wager' includes any transmission over the Internet carried
interstate or in foreign commerce, incidentally or otherwise;
and
``(4) the term `wire communication' has the meaning given
the term in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47
U.S.C. 153).''.
SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, shall be
construed--
(1) to preempt any State law prohibiting gambling; or
(2) to alter, limit, or extend--
(A) the relationship between the Interstate
Horseracing Act of 1978 (15 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) and
other Federal laws in effect on the date of enactment
of this Act;
(B) the ability of a State licensed lottery
retailer to make in-person, computer-generated retail
lottery sales under applicable Federal and State laws
in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act; or
(C) the relationship between Federal laws and State
charitable gaming laws in effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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