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910 Bipartisan Bill Seeks To Ban Sports Betting On Prediction Market Platforms

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/23/2026 18:00 EDT

Bipartisan Bill Seeks To Ban Sports Betting On Prediction Market Platforms

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced (PDF) a bill on Monday that could prevent prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket from allowing users to wager money on sports events or play casino-style games. This bipartisan bill would not apply to FanDuel and DraftKings, which are subject to state-by-state gambling laws, rather than federal ones. "Sports prediction contracts are sports bets -- just with a different name. And yet,

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