"House Bill 1226, titled the Maryland Illegal Online Gambling Enforcement Act, would let the Attorney General issue cease-and-desist orders to any sweepstakes operator accused of offering or promoting illegal online gambling in the state. It also requires the Attorney General to keep a public list of website URLs that have received those orders, effectively creating a blacklist that others would be expected to follow."
"If you notice there's a difference in the provisions of the bill regarding an operator versus a platform provider or someone else, Ruben said. For the operator, the provision says that you're submitting to the jurisdiction only if you knew or should have known that what the bill refers to as illegal online gambling is occurring in the state. But for the platform provider, it does not have that language."
House Bill 1226 would empower the Attorney General to issue cease-and-desist orders to sweepstakes operators accused of offering or promoting illegal online gambling in Maryland and to maintain a public blacklist of URLs that received such orders. The bill defines platform providers broadly to include companies that store or host online content and explicitly covers financial transaction providers such as payment processors and credit card issuers. The measure applies jurisdictional obligations to platform providers without the same knowledge threshold that applies to operators. Observers warn the bill's expansive reach could draw global hosts and payment firms into enforcement.
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