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Committee advances bill to convert underage‑gambling penalties to civil fines funding treatment
Summary
The Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee released Assembly Bill A5086, which would change penalties for underage gambling from criminal sanctions to civil penalties and direct collected fines to gambling addiction treatment programs. There was no oral testimony; the bill passed out of committee.
The Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee voted to release Assembly Bill A5086, which would revise penalties for underage gambling from criminal penalties to civil penalties and require that associated fines be used for gambling addiction treatment.
The chair said there was no testimony on the bill during the meeting. After a motion and a second, the committee recorded affirmative votes and released the bill for further legislative consideration.
The transcript does not provide details on the size of fines, the mechanism for directing funds to treatment programs, or any fiscal estimates; those details were not discussed in the meeting record and are therefore noted as not specified here.
