[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1451 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1451

   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 26, 2003

Mr. Osborne (for himself, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Kind, Mr. Wamp, Mr. 
    Shays, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Goode, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Bartlett of 
 Maryland, Mr. Wicker, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Linder, Mr. Walsh, 
Mr. Latham, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Spratt, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. 
 Etheridge, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Ehlers, and Mr. Wilson of South Carolina) 
 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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