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S2160 • 2026

Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.

Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.

Budget
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Moriarty, Paul D.
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.

Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.
  • Topic: Budget and Appropriations Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading

  2. 2026-03-23 New Jersey Legislature

    Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee

  3. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits sports wagering licensees from offering micro bets; establishes penalties.
Topic:
Budget and Appropriations
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
S2160 SSG Statement 3/23/26

SENATE STATE GOVERNMENT, WAGERING, TOURISM & HISTORIC
PRESERVATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No.
2160

STATE
OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:
�MARCH
23, 2026

����� The Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism &
Historic Preservation Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 2160.

�����
Micro
betting has become an increasingly popular practice whereby bettors can wager
on each play in a sporting event.� Examples of micro bets include whether the
next pitch in a baseball game will be a strike or whether the next play in a
football game will be a pass or run.� The pace at which sporting events are
played, and therefore the pace at which micro bets can be placed, limits the
ability of bettors to research and consider their wagers before placing them
and enables bettors to place a higher volume of wagers in a shorter amount of
time, contributing to excessive and irresponsible gambling.

���� This
bill would prohibit sports wagering licensees from offering or accepting any
wager on a micro bet.

���� The
bill defines �micro bet� to mean a proposition bet which is wagered live, while
a sport or athletic event is ongoing, and concerns the outcome of the next play
or action occurring in the sport or athletic event.� A proposition bet is a
side wager on a part of a sport or athletic event that does not concern the
final outcome of the sport or athletic event.� Common proposition bets include
how many points a basketball player might score, or whether a football player
will score a touchdown or not.

���� The
bill provides that any sports wagering licensee or person who offers or accepts
a micro bet contrary to the provisions of the bill has committed a disorderly
persons offense and will be subject to a fine of not less than $500 and not
more than $1,000 per offense.

����� This bill was prefiled for introduction in the
2026-2027 session pending technical review.� As reported, the bill includes the
changes required by technical review, which has been performed.