(a) The council, licensees, and vendors shall cooperate with investigations conducted by sports governing bodies and law enforcement agencies, including, but not limited to, providing or facilitating the provision of account-level betting information and data files relating to persons placing wagers.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 4-49-115

  • bet: means a sum of money that is risked by a bettor on the unknown outcome of one (1) or more sporting events, including, but not limited to, the form of fixed-odds betting, a future bet, live betting, a money line bet, pari-mutuel betting, parlay bet, pools, proposition bet, spread bet, or in any other form or manner as authorized by rule promulgated by the council. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • Bettor: means a person who is:
    (A) Twenty-one (21) years of age or older. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • Cheating: means improving the chances of winning or of altering the outcome by deception, interference, or manipulation of a sporting event or of any equipment, including software pertaining to or used in relation to the equipment, used for or in connection with the sporting event on which wagers are placed or are invited, including attempts and conspiracy to cheat. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • Council: means the sports wagering council. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • Licensee: means a person who holds a license issued under §. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • Sporting event: means any professional sporting or athletic event, including motorsports and e-sports, any collegiate sporting or athletic event, or any Olympic sporting or athletic event sanctioned by a national or international organization or association. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • Sports governing body: means the organization, league, or association that oversees a sport and prescribes final rules and enforces codes of conduct with respect to such sport and participants therein. See Tennessee Code 4-49-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Licensees shall immediately report to the council any information relating to:

(1) Criminal or disciplinary proceedings commenced against the licensee in connection with its operations;
(2) Abnormal betting activity or patterns that may indicate a concern with the integrity of a sporting event;
(3) Any potential breach of a sports governing body‘s internal rules and codes of conduct pertaining to sports wagering;
(4) Conduct that corrupts the betting outcome of a sporting event for purposes of financial gain, including match fixing; and
(5) Suspicious or illegal wagering activities, including cheating, the use of funds derived from illegal activity, wagers to conceal or launder funds derived from illegal activity, using agents to place wagers, and using false identification.
(c) Licensees shall also immediately report information relating to conduct described in subdivisions (b)(2)-(4) to the relevant sports governing body.
(d) Licensees shall share with the council, in real time and at the account level, information regarding a bettor, amount and type of bet, the time the bet was placed, the location of the bet, including the internet protocol address if applicable, the outcome of the bet, and records of abnormal betting activity. Information shared under this subsection (d) must be submitted in the form and manner as required by rule of the council.
(e) If a sports governing body has notified the council that real-time information sharing for wagers placed on its sporting events is necessary and desirable, licensees shall share the same information with the sports governing body or its designee with respect to wagers on its sporting events. Such information may be provided in anonymized form and may be used by a sports governing body solely for integrity purposes.
(f) In addition to its specific rulemaking authority under this part, the council may promulgate rules it deems necessary to maintain the integrity of sports wagering in this state and to protect the public interest.
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