Amends TCA Title 4; Title 14; Title 38; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 5; Title 47, Chapter 18; Title 49 and Title 67.

The Tennessee Sports Gaming Act (the "Act") requires licensees under the Act to allow bettors to restrict themselves from placing wagers with the licensee, and to take reasonable steps to prevent those bettors from placing such wagers. The sports wagering advisory council ("council") must promulgate rules that require a licensee to implement responsible sports wagering programs that include comprehensive training on responding to circumstances in which individuals present signs of a gambling addiction.<br /> <br /> It is a taxable privilege to offer sports wagering in this state under a license issued in accordance with the Act. There is imposed upon the adjusted gross income of a licensee a privilege tax of 20 percent. Five percent of the privilege tax must be distributed by the council to the state treasurer and allocated to the department of mental health and substance abuse services to use in the following manner:<br /> <br /> (1) The department must use the funds to oversee one or more grant programs with organizations to provide treatment services for individuals with problem gambling or a gambling disorder, and to establish prevention initiatives to reduce the number of individuals with problem gambling or a gambling disorder; and<br /> <br /> (2) The department may use the funds to cover the department's actual administrative costs and the costs of professional services associated with overseeing each grant program.<br /> <br /> This bill revises (1) above, such that the use of the funds as described in (1) are what the funds must primarily be used for, but that the department must secondarily use the funds to address juvenile addiction and mental health disorders.<br /> <br /> REPORT<br /> <br /> The department must annually generate a report outlining the activities of the department with respect to such funding for problem gambling and gambling disorders. The department must file the annual report with the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, and must publish the report on its website, no later than January 1 of each year. The annual report must include an itemization of the department's expenditures relating to administrative costs and professional services associated with its activities as described in (2) above.<br /> <br /> This bill adds to the department's annual report a requirement to outline the activities of the department with respect to juvenile addiction and mental health disorders. <br />