Utah Sen. John Curtis helps lead push to ban sports betting contracts on prediction markets

By: Katie McKellar

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: March 23, 2026

Words: 713

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Utah Sen. John Curtis — along with California Sen. Adam Schiff — are leading a bipartisan charge to make clear that sports prediction markets are indeed gambling and therefore subject to regulation and, in some states like Utah, banned.

Curtis, a Republican, and Schiff, a Democrat, introduced the Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act on Monday. It would ban any entity registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from “listing a contract that closely …

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